SOSTRE v. PREISER

No. 985, Docket 75-2036.

519 F.2d 763 (1975)

Martin SOSTRE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Peter PREISER, Commissioner of New York State Department of Correctional Services, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael E. Deutsch, Dennis Cunningham, Buffalo, N. Y., for plaintiff-appellant.

Timothy F. O'Brien, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Jack W. Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before ANDERSON, MANSFIELD and OAKES, Circuit Judges.


OAKES, Circuit Judge:

Appellant seeks to overturn the denial of a preliminary injunction by the United States District Court for the Northern District of New York, Edmund Port, Judge, in a civil rights action, seeking declaratory, injunctive and monetary relief. Appellees include the New York Commissioner of Corrections and the wardens of Auburn and Clinton prisons.1 Appellant has during most of the pendency of this appeal been...

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