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ROSADO v. CIVILETTI

Nos. 980-982, Dockets 80-2001 to 80-2003.

621 F.2d 1179 (1980)

Pedro ROSADO, Efran Morales Caban, and Raymond Bayron Velez, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Benjamin CIVILETTI, Attorney General of the United States, Raymond Nelson, Warden of the Federal Correctional Institution at Danbury, Connecticut, and The United States of America, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Blumenthal, U. S. Atty., D. Conn., New Haven, Conn. (George J. Kelly, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Hartford, Conn., and Michael Abbell, Crim. Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Eric M. Freedman, New York City (Steven Duke and Dennis Curtis, Yale Law School, of counsel; Robert Suomala, law student intern, on the brief), for petitioner-appellee Rosado.

Andrew B. Bowman, Fairfield, Conn. (Kleban, Samor, Perles, Dardani & Silvestro, Fairfield, Conn., of counsel), for petitioner-appellee Caban.

David S. Golub, Stamford, Conn. (Ernest F. Teitell and Silver, Golub & Sandak, Stamford, Conn., of counsel), for petitioner-appellee Velez.

Before KAUFMAN, Chief Judge, TIMBERS, Circuit Judge, and LASKER, District Judge.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Chief Judge:

The proud heritage of the Anglo-American judicial system as a bastion of individual liberties is founded, in no small measure, upon the citizen's enduring right of access to courts of law to challenge unwarranted governmental infringements upon his freedom. When all other avenues of relief have been closed, our nation's courts have consistently vindicated the fundamental guaranties of due process of law by invoking their general jurisdiction...

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