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UNITED STATES EX REL. BURGESS v. LINDSEY

Civ. A. No. 73-281.

395 F.Supp. 404 (1975)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Walter A. BURGESS v. Richard W. LINDSEY et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

May 21, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carole McHugh, Camden, N. J., of counsel; Laurence D. Mass, Indigent Prisoner Litigation Program, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Richard W. Hollstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

In this civil rights action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff Walter A. Burgess challenges the constitutionality of certain specified practices of the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole ("the Board"). At all times relevant to this complaint, the individual defendants were members of the Board. Plaintiff alleges that defendants, by detaining him after his arrest for a...

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