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INMATES OF ATTICA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY v. ROCKEFELLER

Nos. 284, 334, Dockets 71-1931, 71-1994.

453 F.2d 12 (1971)

INMATES OF the ATTICA CORRECTIONAL FACILITY et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Nelson ROCKEFELLER, Governor, State of New York, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 1, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phylis Skloot Bamberger, William E. Hellerstein, New York City (Barbara Shapiro, The Legal Aid Society, New York City, Herman Schwartz, ACLU Prisoners Rights Project, Buffalo, N. Y., Stanley Bass, NAACP Legal & Educational Fund, Inc., Daniel Pachoda, National Lawyers Guild, Morton Stavis, Center for Constitutional Law, New York City, Vincent Doyle, Jr., Buffalo, N. Y., Haywood Burns, National Conference of Black Lawyers, New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Maxwell B. Spoont, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of N. Y. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., by Robert E. Fischer, Deputy Atty. Gen., David M. Richman, Roger W. Bradley, Asst. Attys. Gen. on the brief), for appellees.

Before LUMBARD, MANSFIELD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by certain prisoners of New York State's Attica Correctional Facility (Attica), a maximum security prison, seeks reversal of orders of the United States District Court for the Western District of New York entered on September 28, October 6 and 7, 1971, denying their application for a preliminary injunction restraining defendants from engaging in conduct allegedly violating plaintiffs'...

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