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RIVERS v. ROYSTER

No. 10351.

360 F.2d 592 (1966)

Arthur L. RIVERS, Appellant, v. M. L. ROYSTER, Assistant Superintendent Virginia State Farm, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided April 25, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Collins Denny, III, Richmond, Va. (Court-assigned counsel) [Denny, Valentine & Davenport, Richmond, Va., on brief], for appellant.

Reno S. Harp, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia (Robert Y. Button, Atty. Gen. of Virginia, and James Parker Jones, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Virginia, on brief), for appellee.

Before SOBELOFF and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and HUTCHESON, District Judge.

J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judge:

The petitioner appeals from an order of the district court dismissing his action for equitable relief without a plenary hearing on the ground that it sets forth no justiciable issue because it deals with the internal administration of the state prison system where the petitioner is lawfully confined. The complaint alleges that the prison superintendent has denied the petitioner the right to receive a nonsubversive Negro newspaper, the...

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