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FRENCH v. BUTTERWORTH

No. 79-1338.

614 F.2d 23 (1980)

Wilfred Roy FRENCH, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Fred A. BUTTERWORTH, Defendant, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

January 31, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wilfred Roy French, pro se.

Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Lee Carl Bromberg, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., and Roberta S. Harvest, Counsel, Dept. of Correction, on brief, for defendant, appellee.

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

BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

This case arose when Wilfred Roy French, a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, attempted to become a distributor of Erewhon natural foods within the prison. He collected the signatures of hundreds of inmates who supported his proposal to make health food available at a low profit margin, not to exceed 2%. Prison Superintendent Fred Butterworth turned down the proposal.

Aggrieved by this decision, French...

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