STATE OF LOUISIANA EX REL. PURKEY v. CIOLINO

Civ. A. No. 73-2258.

393 F.Supp. 102 (1975)

STATE OF LOUISIANA ex rel. Larry Joe PURKEY and James Edward Cripps v. John C. CIOLINO et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Louisiana.

April 17, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Joe Purkey, in pro per.

James Edward Cripps, in pro per.

Louis A. Gerdes, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., New Orleans, La., for defendants Charles Ward, Matthew S. Braniff, Jerome Winsberg, Thomas M. Brahney, Jr., Rudolph F. Becker, Jr., Oliver P. Schulingkamp, Frank J. Shea, Bernard J. Bagert, Israel M. Augustine, Jr., Alvin V. Oser, Edwin W. Edwards and William J. Guste.

Edward G. Koch, in pro per.

Charles C. Foti, Jr., Asst. City Atty., New Orleans, La., for defendants Joseph R. Bossetta, Andrew C. Bucaro, James E. Glancy, Jr., W. Blair Lancaster, Jr., City of New Orleans.


JACK M. GORDON, District Judge.

The plaintiffs, Larry Joe Purkey and James Edward Cripps, initiated this civil rights action to redress alleged violations of their First, Sixth, and Eighth Amendment rights. The vehicles the plaintiffs have chosen for the assertion of these alleged constitutional violations are 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985 and 1986. The plaintiffs ground jurisdiction on 28 U.S.C. §§ 1331, 1343(3) and (4), 2201 et seq., 2251, 2254...

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