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UNITED STATES EX REL. WALKER v. MANCUSI

No. 870, Docket 72-1081.

467 F.2d 51 (1972)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Harold WALKER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Vincent R. MANCUSI, Superintendent, Attica Correctional Facility, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Walker, pro se, for plaintiffs-appellants.

John H. Stenger, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Buffalo, N. Y. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., State of N. Y., New York City, of counsel), for defendant-appellee.

Before MANSFIELD and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and GURFEIN, District Judge.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:

Appellants are inmates of the Attica Correctional Facility who have been segregated from the general inmate population of that prison in a special housing unit known as "A Block, 6 Company." In a class suit brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 they contend that the segregation violates their Eighth and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Invoking the district court's jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343, 1361, 2201 and 26 U...

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