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WALKER v. ROWE

No. 80 C 5310.

535 F.Supp. 55 (1982)

Dale E. WALKER; Sharon D. Patchett; Melba Jean Thomas as administrator of the estate of William N. Thomas, deceased; Danny Dill; Natalie Dill; Sandra N. Cole as administrator of the estate of Stanley E. Cole, deceased; Robert Conkle as administrator of the estate of Robert J. Conkle, deceased, Plaintiffs, v. Charles ROWE, former director of the Department of Corrections; Thaddeus Pinckney, former warden, Pontiac Correctional Center; David Sandall and William O'Sullivan, former assistant wardens, Pontiac Correctional Center, William Shehorn; Louis Lowery, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

January 27, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffry J. Knuckles, Fawell, James & Brooks, Naperville, Ill., for plaintiffs.

Tyrone C. Fahner, Atty. Gen., Mary A. Mulhern, Asst. Atty. Gen., Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

ASPEN, District Judge:

Plaintiffs are three former correctional officers, one of their wives and three administrators of the estates of correctional officers who died in an inmate riot at the Pontiac Correctional Center on July 22, 1978. Plaintiffs' cause of action is brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 on the theory that various state corrections officials deprived them of their constitutional rights by failing to take...

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