UNITED STATES EX REL. SERO v. PREISER

No. 299, Docket 74-1944.

506 F.2d 1115 (1974)

UNITED STATES ex rel. Lois SERO et al., Petitioners-Appellees, v. Peter PREISER et al., Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1974.

Certiorari Denied April 14, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph L. McMurry, New York City, (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., on the brief, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, New York City, of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Herman Schwartz, Amherst, N. Y. (Edward I. Koren, Amherst, N. Y., Elizabeth B. DuBois, Michael E. Smith, New York City, on the brief), for petitioners-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, and SMITH and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges.


Certiorari Denied April 14, 1975. See 95 S.Ct. 1587.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

This class action presents important procedural questions regarding the present scope of what once was termed "the most celebrated writ in the English law." Blackstone, Commentaries, Bk. III, 129. It also calls upon us to decide the more pressing human problem of the proper treatment to be afforded young adults sentenced under a New York statute, subsequently repealed, to...

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