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GOMES v. MORAN

No. 79-1130.

605 F.2d 27 (1979)

Douglas GOMES et al., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. John J. MORAN, Director of Corrections, State of Rhode Island, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided September 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph J. Gonnella, Providence, R. I., with whom Alden C. Harrington, Barbara Hurst and John F. Cicilline, Providence, R. I., were on brief, for plaintiff-appellant.

Maureen E. McKenna, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Providence, R. I., with whom Dennis

J. Roberts, II, Atty. Gen., Providence, R. I., was on brief, for defendants-appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and BOWNES, Circuit Judges.

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This is another salvo, and perhaps the final one, in the continuing battle between plaintiff prisoners and the State of Rhode Island as to what due process rights prison inmates are entitled when transferred within or out of the Rhode Island prison system.

On September 20, 1978, fifteen inmates at the Rhode Island Adult Correctional Institution were moved without notice or hearing to the Federal Prison at Danbury, Connecticut, preparatory...

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