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UNITED STATES EX REL. RUSSELL v. HENDRICK

Civ. A. No. 71-2714.

376 F.Supp. 158 (1974)

UNITED STATES ex rel. William RUSSELL v. Edward J. HENDRICK, Superintendent, and Joseph McGowan, Warden.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

May 21, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher M. Laquer, of Temple University Law School Prison Project, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Stephen T. Saltz, Asst. City Sol., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

EDWARD R. BECKER, District Judge.

This is an action brought under 42 U. S.C. § 1983. The plaintiff, William Russell, presently an inmate at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon (Pennsylvania) seeks damages for the alleged deprivation of access to the courts on the ground that he was wrongfully deprived by officials of the Holmesburg Prison of certain lawbooks which he had ordered. The case was tried to the Court sitting...

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