PALMIGIANO v. MULLEN

No. 73-1331.

491 F.2d 978 (1974)

Nicholas A. PALMIGIANO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. James W. MULLEN, Warden, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 19, 1974.

As Amended February 27, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas A. Palmigiano, on brief pro se.

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

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


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Nicholas Palmigiano, serving a life sentence for murder, has sued correctional personnel comprising the prison Classification Board at Rhode Island's Adult Correctional Institution. Citing 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and companion provisions, he asks for damages from the individual defendants.

Palmigiano's grievance devolves from the Classification Board's unwillingness to alter his classification as a maximum security...

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