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BECKETT v. POWERS

Nos. 74-C-205, 75-C-439, 76-C-109 and 76-C-61.

494 F.Supp. 364 (1980)

Donald W. BECKETT, Plaintiff, v. Sangor B. POWERS, Ramon Gray, Harvey Winans, Sgt. Hilt, Defendants. Ralph WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, v. Wilbur J. SCHMIDT, John R. Gagnon, Gaylord Thomas, Robert Ganz, Defendants. Ralph WILLIAMS, Plaintiff, v. Manuel CARBALLO, John R. Gagnon, James Boorman, Nathan Franke, (Officer) Dykstra, Defendants. Jerry WEATHERALL, Plaintiff, v. Manuel CARBALLO, John R. Gagnon, James Boorman, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cook, Mr. and Mrs. John Thalacker, Defendants.

United States District Court, W. D. Wisconsin.

August 4, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester A. Pines, Madison, Wis., for plaintiffs.

Pamela Magee-Heilprin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Madison, Wis., for defendants.

CRABB, District Judge.

These suits raise questions concerning the application of the Fourth Amendment's prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures to searches of cells in which prison inmates reside. Plaintiffs, all of whom were incarcerated in Wisconsin state correctional institutions at the time of the events which gave rise to this action, contend that defendants deprived them of rights guaranteed to them by the Fourth Amendment, and request monetary...

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