Legal Opinion
Bishop v. Cox
District Court, W.D. Virginia
Decided November 25, 1970No. Civ. A. 70-C-32-HPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION and JUDGMENT
DALTON, Chief Judge.
Wallace C. Bishop is incarcerated at a Virginia State road camp. He has filed a “petition for Redress” in which he alleges that the institutional physicians have denied him medicine for his nervous condition. It is further alleged that he had been taking this medicine for some time before incarceration and that its deprivation amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. Since Bishop complains of the treatment being received in prison instead of the validity of the underlying conviction, the petition is accepted as an action for injunctive relief under 42…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Bowman v. HaleDistrict Court, S.D. Alabama · 1969
- Hopkins v. County of CookDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1969
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