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PATTERSON v. MacDOUGALL

No. 73-3237.

506 F.2d 1 (1975)

Jerry PATTERSON et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Ellis C. MacDOUGALL, Director, Georgia State Board of Corrections, Atlanta, Georgia, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 8, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Stone, Atlanta, Ga. (Court-appointed), for plaintiffs-appellants.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., William F. Bartee, Jr., Courtney Wilder Stanton, Asst. Attys. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., for defendant-appellee.

Before TUTTLE, WISDOM and GEE, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

On May 11, 1973, Jerry Patterson and 21 other inmates of a Georgia prison, the Diagnostic and Classification Center, Jackson, Georgia, filed a pro se complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia alleging that Ellis C. MacDougall, the defendant, Director of the Georgia State Board of Corrections, had deprived them or caused them to be deprived of rights guaranteed under the first, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh...

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