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CORPUS v. ESTELLE

No. 78-2194.

605 F.2d 175 (1979)

Julius CORPUS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., Director, Texas Dept. of Corrections, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

October 26, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian E. Berwick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendant-appellant.

William Bennett Turner, San Francisco, Cal., Mrs. Frances T. Cruz, Washington, D. C., Jack Greenberg, James M. Nabrit, III, Joel Berger, New York City, for plaintiff-appellee.

Before WISDOM, HILL and VANCE, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

The complaint in this action was filed in April 1968. For the third time this case has surfaced in this Court. Ronald Novak filed the first case, pro se, as a § 1983 class action on behalf of all those in custody of the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC). He sought, among other things, declaratory and injunctive relief against a TDC practice of prohibiting legal assistance by one inmate to another. The district court found against the...

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