POWELL v. WARD

Nos. 522-3, Dockets 80-2141, -2162.

643 F.2d 924 (1981)

Elizabeth POWELL, Dalree Mapp, Katherine Purrington, Althea McDaniels, Paula Herbert, Cyndi Reed, and Margaret Gatling, on Behalf of Themselves and all Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, v. Benjamin WARD, Individually and as Commissioner of Correctional Services, Janice Warne, Individually and as Superintendent of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, and Phyllis Joan Curry, Individually and as Superintendent of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith A. Gordon, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of New York, George D. Zuckerman, Asst. Sol. Gen., Robert A. Forte, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mary Anne B. Orenstein, Legal Asst., New York City, of counsel) for defendants-appellants-cross-appellees.

Elizabeth L. Koob, Michael D. Hampden, New York City (James S. Braude, New York City) for plaintiffs-appellees-cross-appellants.

Before KAUFMAN, KEARSE and BRIGHT, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

Defendants-Appellants appeal from an order of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Charles E. Stewart, Judge, dated April 29, 1980, as amended by an order dated May 1, 1980 ("the 1980 Order"), 487 F.Supp. 917, holding defendant Phyllis Joan Curry in civil contempt of a preliminary injunction entered June 23, 1975, as modified by this Court on appeal, 542 F.2d 101<...

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