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· 4/29/1976

Donald Edward Allen v. Louis S. Aytch, Individually and as Superintendent or Director of Philadelphia County Prisons

Citations

  • 535 F.2d 817

How courts have described this case

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

  • avoiding constitutional issue by remanding for determination of pendent issues of federal and local law first raised by party on appeal
  • declining to rule on constitutional question and remanding to district court for consideration of alternative ground
  • declining to construe the complaint of a third year law student liberally because the student had “substantial legal training”
  • declining to construe the complaint of a third year law student liberally because the student had “substantial legal training”
  • declining to construe the complaint of a third year law student liberally because the student had “substantial legal training”
  • remanding to the district court for consideration of alternative ground which did not involve Constitutional issues rather than reach out to decide an unnecessary Constitutional issue

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Judges: Adams, Hunter, Garth

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