WRIGHT v. McMANN

Nos. 95, 96, Dockets 35572, 35573.

460 F.2d 126 (1972)

Lawrence William WRIGHT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Daniel McMANN, Warden of Clinton Prison, Defendant-Appellant. UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Robert MOSHER, Petitioner-Appellee, v. J. EDWIN LaVALLEE, Superintendent of Clinton Correctional Facilitity, Respondent-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 16, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Betty D. Friedlander, Waverly, N. Y. (Herman Schwartz, Buffalo, N. Y., and William C. Scott, Jr., Portland, Or., on the brief), for appellee Lawrence William Wright.

William Bennett Turner, San Francisco, Cal. (Jack Greenberg, Stanley A. Bass, New York City, and Alice Daniel, San Francisco, Cal., on the brief), for appellee Robert Mosher.

Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., and Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Before LUMBARD, HAYS and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge:

Lawrence William Wright in March 1966 brought suit under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, against appellant McMann in the Northern District of New York. Wright's pro se complaint alleged that Warden McMann and other prison officials at the Clinton Correctional Facility had deprived him of his constitutional rights during two periods of solitary confinement. The district court dismissed...

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