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SPATES v. MANSON

No. 888, Docket 79-2267.

619 F.2d 204 (1980)

Joseph Mario SPATES et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction et al., Defendants-Appellants. Harry J. MAYO, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. John R. MANSON, Commissioner, Connecticut Department of Correction et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided April 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Stone, Hartford, Conn. (Connecticut Civil Liberties Union Foundation), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Cornelius F. Tuohy, Asst. Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn. (Carl R. Ajello, Atty. Gen., State of Conn., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Before FRIENDLY and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges, and SIFTON, District Judge.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

This action commenced on October 8, 1976, when Joseph Spates and two other inmates at the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers filed a pro se complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, charging various state correctional officials with denying their right to a constitutionally adequate law library and legal assistance in the prison.1 The complaint sought "injunctive...

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