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· 11/20/1975

Bobby Hardwick v. R. Brinson, Chief Mail Clerk, Georgia State Prison, and Joseph S. Hopper, Warden

Citations

  • 523 F.2d 798
  • 1975 U.S. App. LEXIS 11835

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • concluding that an inmate’s transfer did not moot the case when “defendants were unable to advise that [the inmate] would not be returned to the [complained of prison].”
  • explaining that “no one, rich or poor, is entitled to abuse the judicial process.”
  • transfer of state prisoner to a different prison within the state system does not assure that prisoner would never be returned or that alleged discriminatory conduct will never recur.
  • prisoner’s First Amendment claim was not moot where prison officials could not say that prisoner, who had since been transferred to another facility, would not be returned to the original facility where prisoner’s claim arose

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Judges: Bell, Thornberry, Morgan

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