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McGINNIS v. STEVENS

No. 3094.

570 P.2d 735 (1977)

Frederick P. McGINNIS, Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, and Charles G. Adams, Jr., Director of the Division of Corrections, Department of Health and Social Services, Appellants, v. H.C.R. STEVENS, and all other persons presently imprisoned, in custody, or in any manner detained under the authority of the Commissioner of the Department of Health and Social Services, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

November 4, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan Lawner, Asst. Dist. Atty., Joseph D. Balfe, Dist. Atty., Anchorage, and Avrum M. Gross, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellants.

Robert H. Wagstaff, Wagstaff & Middleton, Anchorage, for appellees.

Before BOOCHEVER, C.J., and RABINOWITZ, CONNOR and BURKE, JJ.

OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Justice.

In 1971 appellee Stevens filed a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief. The gravamen of the complaint was that prisoners under the jurisdiction of appellants were being deprived of due process rights by virtue of appellants' arbitrary revocation of inmates' statutory good time, appellants' arbitrary administration of disciplinary matters within Alaska's prison facilities...

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