Legal Opinion
Anthony Ort v. Warden J.D. White, Ron Sutton, Tony Holliday, Officer Truman Mitman, Captain Shoemaker and J.W. Taunton
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided May 5, 1987No. 85-7059PublishedCited by 110 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HILL, Circuit Judge:
Appellant Anthony Ort, an inmate in the Alabama prison system, appeals from the district court’s dismissal of his civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against the warden and various officers of the Stanton Correctional Facility in Elmore, Alabama. Appellant’s complaint is based upon two series of incidents during which he alleges that prison officials violated his constitutional rights. First, he asserts that on several occasions a prison officer unconstitutionally denied him water, in violation of both the eighth and fourteenth amendments, when he refused to…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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