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COOPER v. RIDDLE

No. 75-1573.

540 F.2d 731 (1976)

Jesse A. X. COOPER et al., Appellants, v. Walter M. RIDDLE, Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jamie Lee Hingle, Jack Griffeth and Dan Dugan, Third Year Law Students (Donald H. Beskind, Denver, Colo. [court-appointed counsel] and Kathryn A. Gibbons, Third Year Law Student, on brief), for appellants.

Stuart Bateman, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richmond, Va., and (Andrew P. Miller, Atty. Gen. Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellee.

Before RUSSELL and WIDENER, Circuit Judges, and FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.

FIELD, Senior Circuit Judge.

Jesse A. X. Cooper, on behalf of himself and ten other prisoners, instituted this action against the Superintendent of the Virginia State Penitentiary pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The plaintiffs alleged that their procedural due process rights had been violated by the Institutional Classification Committee (ICC) in its reclassification of each of them into maximum security status. The defendant filed a motion for summary judgment...

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