Haines v. Kerner

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Haines v. Kerner
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United States Supreme Court

404 U.S. 519

Haines  v.  Kerner, et al.

Certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

No. 70-5025  Argued: December 6, 1971 --- Decided: January 13, 1972

Prisoner's pro se complaint seeking to recover damages for claimed physical injuries and deprivation of rights in imposing disciplinary confinement should not have been dismissed without affording him the opportunity to present evidence on his claims.


Stanley A. Bass, by appointment of the Court, 401 U.S. 1008, argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit III, William B. Turner, Alice Daniel, and Max Stern.

Warren K. Smoot, Assistant Attorney General of Illinois, argued the cause for respondents pro hac vice. With him on the brief were William J. Scott, Attorney General, Joel M. Flaum, First Assistant Attorney General, and James B. Zagel, Morton E. Friedman, and Jayne A. Carr, Assistant Attorneys General.

Briefs of amici curiae were filed by Charles H. Baron for Boston College Center for Corrections and the Law, and by Julian Tepper and Marshall J. Hartman for the National Law Office of the National Legal Aid and Defender Assn.


PER CURIAM.

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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States federal government (see 17 U.S.C. 105).

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