Legal Opinion
Burns v. Swenson
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 31, 1970No. Nos. 19980, 19981, 20003, 20004PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHES, Chief Judge.
These appeals and cross-appeals are from a final order entered on July 25, *7731969, by the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Honorable John W. Oliver, in two consolidated civil rights actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on March 10 and August 2, 1966, by Robert E. Burns, an inmate at the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. The two suits were later consolidated with similar civil rights actions separately lodged by eight other inmates of the Penitentiary. For reasons not here pertinent, all cases' involving inmates other than…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Griswold v. ConnecticutSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Johnson v. AverySupreme Court of the United States · 1969
- Price v. JohnstonSupreme Court of the United States · 1948
- Jackson v. BishopCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1968
- Lawrence William Wright v. Daniel McMann as Warden of Clinton State PrisonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by101 opinions
- Sostre v. McGinnisCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1971
- Lawrence J. Holt v. Robert Sarver, Commissioner of CorrectionsCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1971
- Landman v. RoysterDistrict Court, E.D. Virginia · 1971
- Eddie Adams v. Norman Carlson, Director of the Federal Bureau of PrisonsCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
- Sylvester H. Peck v. Cliff Hoff, Deputy Warden, Classification BoardCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1981
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