BEN DAVID v. TRAVISONO

No. 73-1314.

495 F.2d 562 (1974)

Ralph BEN DAVID et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Anthony P. TRAVISONO et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Ralph J. Gonnella, Providence, R. I., with whom Hodosh, Spinella, Hodosh & Angelone, Providence, R. I., Max D. Stern, Burnham, Stern & Shapiro, Boston, Mass., and Stanley Bass, New York City, were on brief, for appellees.

Before ALDRICH, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a preliminary order of the district court enjoining and restraining Rhode Island prison officials and state police, and their agents,

"1. from perpetrating or suffering to be perpetrated the physical and mental abuse, brutalization and beatings of plaintiffs and members of plaintiffs' class by the defendants and their agents; 2. from taking any action...

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