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SOSTRE v. ROCKEFELLER

No. 68 Civ. 4058.

312 F.Supp. 863 (1970)

Martin SOSTRE, Plaintiff, v. Nelson A. ROCKEFELLER, Paul D. McGinnis, Vincent Mancusi and Harold W. Follette, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

May 14, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard, by Victor Rabinowitz and Kristin Glen, New York City, for plaintiff.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of New York, by Mark T. Walsh and Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, for defendants.

OPINION

FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

MOTLEY, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3), brought by plaintiff, Martin Sostre, an "Afro-American citizen of the United States" and resident of Green Haven Prison against the Governor of New York, the Commissioner of Corrections and the Wardens of two New York State prisons.1

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