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POWELL v. WARD

No. 527, Docket 75-2107.

542 F.2d 101 (1976)

Elizabeth POWELL et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Benjamin WARD, Commissioner of Correctional Services and Janice Warne, Individually, and as Superintendent of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided September 17, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. Latimer, Bronx Legal Services Corp., New York City (Donald Grajales, Project Director, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Margery Evans Reifler, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Before MOORE and TIMBERS, Circuit Judges, and NEWMAN, District Judge.

NEWMAN, District Judge:

In this class action brought on behalf of prisoners at New York's two state prisons for women to bring disciplinary proceedings into conformity with the procedural due process standards enunciated in Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 94 S.Ct. 2963, 41 L.Ed.2d 935 (1974), Judge Stewart issued a preliminary injunction applicable to the sub-class of prisoners at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility.

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