FIALLO v. de BATISTA

No. 80-1642.

666 F.2d 729 (1981)

Filiberto Guerrero FIALLO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Irba Cruz de BATISTA, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 17, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vilma Santiago Irizarry, Nora L. Rodrigues Matias, and Ivonne Diaz De Carreras, Rio Piedras, P. R., on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Hector A. Colon Cruz, Sol. Gen., and Lorraine Riefkohl De Lopez, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P. R., on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, ALDRICH and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff is an inmate at the Guayama Regional Detention Center in Puerto Rico. In this appeal, we are asked to determine whether a federal cause of action may be founded either on the Corrections Administration's failure to transfer him to a residential drug treatment facility or on the disappearance of plaintiff's photographic equipment from a prison official's custody.

In June, 1978, plaintiff wrote a letter to a judge of the district...

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