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UNITED STATES EX REL. WOLFISH v. LEVI

No. 75 Civ. 6000.

439 F.Supp. 114 (1977)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Louis WOLFISH et al., Petitioners, v. Edward LEVI et al., Respondents.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

As Amended September 26, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Hellerstein, Phylis Skloot Bamberger, Michael Young, Michael B. Mushlin, David J. Gottlieb, Amy Rothstein, John Boston, for The Legal Aid Society, Federal Defender Services Unit, New York City, for petitioners.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty. for the Southern Dist. of New York, New York City, for respondents; Louis G. Corsi, Frederick P. Schaffer, New York City, of counsel.

OPINION

FRANKEL, District Judge.

In the explosively growing field of law about prison conditions lately developed in the federal courts, this case has one relatively rare feature: it concerns conditions in one of our own, federal places of confinement. The institution in question is the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) adjoining this courthouse. The action was brought for the MCC's involuntary occupants (both male and female) as a class, embracing...

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