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DUMSCHAT v. BOARD OF PARDONS, STATE OF CONN.

Nos. 539, 540, Dockets 78-2124, 78-2125.

593 F.2d 165 (1979)

David DUMSCHAT, Plaintiff-Appellee, James Brown, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton, Intervening Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF PARDONS, STATE OF CONNECTICUT; and Richard K. Lublin (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Paul J. DuBissette, Members of the Board of Pardons, Defendants-Appellants. James BROWN, Stanley Czaja and James Shelton, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BOARD OF PARDONS, STATE OF CONNECTICUT; and Paul J. McQuillan (Chairman), Alvin Dozeman, Michael E. DuBissette, John Speziale, and Philip Tatoian, Members of the Board of Pardons, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 11, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen J. O'Neill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Hartford, Conn. (Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen. of the State of Connecticut, Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Stephen Wizner, New Haven, Conn. (Yale Legal Clinic, Dennis E. Curtis, Mary F. Keller, Alice Bussiere, Judith Resnik, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for intervening plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, SMITH and OAKES, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM:

On this appeal from a declaratory judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut in a class action requiring a statement of reasons by the Connecticut Board of Pardons in case of denial of application for pardon by prisoners serving life terms, we affirm essentially for the reasons given by Judge Blumenfeld in his opinions below, 432 F.Supp. 1310 (D.Conn.1977), 462 F...

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