1. Home
  2. Browse Decisions
  3. F.2d
  4. 487 F.2d
  5. 487 F.2d 1280 (1973)
 

PALMIGIANO v. BAXTER

No. 73-1088.

487 F.2d 1280 (1973)

Nicholas A. PALMIGIANO, Appellant, v. Joseph BAXTER et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided November 16, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. Fortunato, Jr., with whom McKinnon & Fortunato, Providence, R. I., and Ellen Katz, were on brief, for appellant.

Cary J. Coen, Providence, R. I., John M. Roney, Washington, D. C., Max D. Stern, Stern & Shapiro, Boston, Mass., and Stanley A. Bass, New York City, on brief for Robert Flint and Michael Roberts, amici curiae.

W. Slater Allen, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Richard J. Israel, Atty. Gen., was on brief, for appellees.

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

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

This is an action seeking damages and declaratory and injunctive relief pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) to redress certain alleged deprivations of procedural due process in the administration of discipline at Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institutions (A.C.I.). Appellant is a prisoner at the A.C.I., serving a life sentence for murder. In the early evening of November 11, 1972, a fellow prisoner became violently...

Let's get started

Leagle.com

Welcome to the leading source of independent legal reporting
Sign on now to see your case.
Or view more than 10 million decisions and orders.

  • Updated daily.
  • Uncompromising quality.
  • Complete, Accurate, Current.

Listed below are the cases that are cited in this Featured Case. Click the citation to see the full text of the cited case. Citations are also linked in the body of the Featured Case.

Cited Cases

  • No Cases Found

Listed below are those cases in which this Featured Case is cited. Click on the case name to see the full text of the citing case.

Citing Cases