TRACY v. SALAMACK

No. 578, Docket 77-2141.

572 F.2d 393 (1978)

James TRACY, William Adams, Robert Arnold, Arthur Betsch, Santos Cepeda, Douglas Coleman, Harold Gonzalez, Lennell Howard, Elliot Hunt, Billy Little, Larry Moore, Robert Oakley, Emanual Ordine, Jr., Larry Pleasant, George Reed, Anthony Repetti, Cordell Robinson, William Rodriguez, Dennis Soares, Michael Thomas, and John Turrisi, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Appellees, v. Dominick SALAMACK, Superintendent, Bayview Correctional Facility, Captain Hylan T. Sperbeck, Correction Officer, Bayview Correctional Facility and Benjamin Ward, Commissioner, Department of Correctional Services, State of New York, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1978.

As Amended April 6, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin J. McKay, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, Samuel A. Hirshowitz, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, of counsel), for appellants.

Susan N. Herman, Prisoners' Legal Services, New York City (Pierce Gerety, Jr., New York City, of counsel), for appellees.

Before OAKES and VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judges, and BARTELS, District Judge.


PER CURIAM:

This appeal is from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Morris E. Lasker, Judge, granting appellees' motion for a preliminary injunction and ordering reinstatement of members of the plaintiff class1 in the temporary release program instituted by the New York State correctional system in 1969,2 Tracy v. Salamack, 440 F.Supp...

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