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SPATES v. MANSON

No. 669, Docket 80-2241.

644 F.2d 80 (1981)

Joseph Mario SPATES, Plaintiff-Appellee, 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 March 3, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

Before FEINBERG, Chief Judge, NEWMAN, Circuit Judge, and MISHLER, District Judge.

FEINBERG, Chief Judge:

This appeal is the latest chapter in a case that began in October 1976 with the filing of a pro se complaint by three prisoners incarcerated at the Connecticut Correctional Institution at Somers, Connecticut. The prisoners alleged that defendants, officials of the state correctional system, had violated their right of access to the courts, guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment, by failing to provide adequate legal assistance and an adequate...

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