John Calvin Thompson v. L.A. Steele

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1983-07-11

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ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge: Thompson, an inmate at the Walls Unit of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) seeks to recover damages from the director of the department of corrections, the warden of the Walls Unit, and a corrections officer for failure to deliver a mail-gram informing him of the death of his father. Concluding th…

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