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NOLAN v. SCAFATI

No. 7538.

430 F.2d 548 (1970)

Daniel NOLAN, Petitioner, Appellant, v. Palmer C. SCAFATI, Superintendent, Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, Massachusetts, Respondent, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

August 14, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Keating, Boston, Mass., by appointment of the Court, with whom Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., was on the brief, for appellant.

James O. Druker, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., John J. Irwin, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Chief, Criminal Division, and Lawrence P. Cohen, Asst. Atty. Gen., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.

COFFIN, Circuit Judge.

On November 22, 1969, state prisoner Daniel Nolan wrote a letter to the Chief Judge of the federal district court in Boston, seeking relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for two alleged violations of his constitutional rights by the prison officials of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole. Petitioner claimed that he had been denied procedural due process by the manner in which the prison officials committed him to extended segregated...

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