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UNITED STATES EX REL. MAYBERRY v. PRASSE

Civ. A. No. 32994.

225 F.Supp. 752 (1963)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Richard J. MAYBERRY v. Arthur T. PRASSE, Commissioner of Corrections of Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and David N. Myers, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford, Pennsylvania.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

December 4, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Mayberry, in pro. per., Joseph P. Green, Krusen, Evans & Byrne, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Frank P. Lawley, Jr., Deputy Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for A. T. Prasse.

GRIM, District Judge.

Plaintiff, a state prisoner, has instituted this equity action against certain prison officials claiming that he has been denied access to legal materials necessary to properly prosecute certain actions instituted or about to be instituted in the appellate courts of Pennsylvania. The action is apparently predicated on 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983, a provision of the Civil Rights Act which authorizes redress for deprivation of civil rights, with jurisdiction...

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