U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1978

Rudolph Hudson v. James A. Rhodes

Rudolph Hudson v. James A. Rhodes
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Decided July 31, 1978 · Phillips, Weick, Lively
579 F.2d 46 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Rudolph Hudson v. James A. Rhodes

Opinion

PER CURIAM.

Three male inmates of Ohio prisons and two women engaged to marry inmates filed this suit pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking to enjoin enforcement of an unwritten policy of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections which forbids the marriage of incarcerated persons. District Judge Don J. Young dismissed the action and plaintiffs appeal.

We affirm on authority of Johnson v. Rockefeller, 365 F.Supp. 377 (S.D.N.Y. 1973), aff’d sub nom. (without opinion) Butler v. Wilson, Governor of New York, 415 U.S. 953, 94 S.Ct. 1479, 39 L.Ed.2d 569 (1974); see also Polmaskitch v. United States, 436 F.Supp. 527 (W.D.Okl. 1977).

Affirmed.

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