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· 6/14/1990

Dorman v. Thornburgh

Citations

  • 740 F. Supp. 875
  • 1990 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8671
  • 1990 WL 95516

How courts have described this case

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

  • transferring action to the district where the “operatively significant event of the conspiracy to deprive them of their civil rights occurred”
  • “Since the plaintiffs elected to sue the agencies and the officials rather than the government itself, the ‘official capacity’ aspect of their lawsuit must fail for that reason alone.”

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Judges: Revercomb

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