LOVELL v. BRENNAN

No. 83-1572.

728 F.2d 560 (1984)

Robert T. LOVELL, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Joseph BRENNAN, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided February 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alvin J. Bronstein, Washington, D.C. and Martha E. Geores, Lewiston, Me., with whom Bell & Geores, Lewiston, Me., was on brief, for plaintiffs, appellants.

William H. Laubenstein, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, Me., with whom James E. Tierney, Atty. Gen., and Gail Ogilvie, Asst. Atty. Gen., Augusta, Me., were on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before COFFIN, BOWNES and BREYER, Circuit Judges.


BOWNES, Circuit Judge.

These consolidated class actions were brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by inmates at Maine State Prison (Thomaston), Maine's only maximum security correctional facility for men, against the Governor of the State of Maine and various state corrections officials. Plaintiffs in Civil Case No. 78-90P, comprising all inmates who had been or might be confined in administrative segregation, alleged that the procedure for assigning them to that status...

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