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NOLAN v. FITZPATRICK

Civ. A. No. 71-555.

326 F.Supp. 209 (1971)

Daniel NOLAN and Richard Lefebvre, on behalf of themselves and all other inmates of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Walpole, and the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, Bridgewater, v. John FITZPATRICK, Commissioner of Correction of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts et al.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

May 3, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael B. Keating, John D. Leubsdorf, and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs.

Charles E. Chase, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Massachusetts, Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., for defendants.

Max D. Stern and John T. Williams, amici curiae, in support of plaintiffs.

OPINION

WYZANSKI, Chief Judge.

This case presents the issue whether state prison authorities violate the rights of their prisoners under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution when the authorities refuse to allow the prisoners to send to representatives of the news media unsealed grievance letters which the authorities have inspected and which they do not claim involve any security risk.

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