Legal Opinion
Tyrone Calhoun v. George E. Detella
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 13, 2003No. 98-2894PublishedCited by 374 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Illinois prisoner Tyrone Calhoun sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging in relevant part that prison employees at the Stateville Correctional Center conducted a deliberately harassing strip search in front of female guards that constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Relying on 28 U.S.C. § 1915A, the district court sua sponte dismissed Calhoun’s complaint prior to service for failure to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Calhoun appeals, and we vacate the dismissal of his Eighth Amendment claims and remand for…
2Cases cited43 opinions
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- Smith v. WadeSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
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