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RICHEY v. WILKINS

No. 436, Docket 28155.

335 F.2d 1 (1964)

James RICHEY, Appellant, v. Walter H. WILKINS, Warden, Attica State Prison, and Paul D. McGinnis, Commissioner of Correction, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided July 21, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward J. Daus, of Corcoran, Kostelanetz & Gladstone, New York City, for appellant.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of New York (Philip Kahaner, Ronald J. Offenkrantz, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for appellees.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and WATERMAN and MARSHALL, Circuit Judges.

WATERMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a suit under the federal Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § 1343, sought to be brought in forma pauperis by a prisoner of the State of New York against prison officials, charging such officials with having subjected the plaintiff to religious persecution and thereby having deprived him of rights secured to him under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The...

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