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WAINWRIGHT v. COONTS

No. 26129.

409 F.2d 1337 (1969)

Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Director, Division of Corrections, State of Florida, et al., Appellants, v. Willis G. COONTS, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 25, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Earl Faircloth, Atty. Gen., Wallace E. Allbritton, Asst. Atty. Gen., Tallahassee, Fla., for appellants.

Richard B. Austin, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee.

Before THORNBERRY and DYER, Circuit Judges, and KEADY, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

Petitioner is an inmate in a Florida prison. He was transferred to the maximum security section of the Raiford State Penitentiary and placed in solitary confinement for violation of a prison regulation prohibiting prisoners from assisting other inmates in the preparation of writs and legal papers. Petitioner filed a petition in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida in which he attacked the validity of the prison regulation...

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