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O'BRIEN v. MORIARTY

No. 73-1297.

489 F.2d 941 (1974)

Gordon J. O'BRIEN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John R. MORIARTY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided January 9, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan Greenberg, Boston, Mass., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Dennis J. LaCroix, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Robert H. Quinn, Atty. Gen., was on brief, for defendants-appellees.

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

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Five inmates of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole brought suit1 in the district court under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 against the Commissioner of Corrections and other state officials. In substance they allege that they occupy individual cells 6 feet wide and 9 feet long in the prison's isolated maximum security facility; that in front of the cells is a passageway about 4...

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