CEPULONIS v. FAIR

No. 83-1480.

732 F.2d 1 (1984)

Richard CEPULONIS, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Michael V. FAIR, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 29, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexander G. Gray, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., with whom Francis X. Bellotti, Atty. Gen., Boston, Mass., was on brief, for defendants, appellants.

Suzanne E. Durrell, Boston, Mass., with whom Richard W. Renehan, and Hill & Barlow, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiffs, appellees.

Before CAMPBELL, Chief Judge, BOWNES, Circuit Judge, and MALETZ, Senior Judge.


LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Chief Judge.

This class action was brought by inmates of the Departmental Segregation Unit ("DSU")1 of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole ("MCI-Walpole") against officials of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections, claiming that defendants had defaulted in their constitutional obligation, defined in Bounds v. Smith, 430 U.S. 817, 97 S.Ct. 1491, 52 L.Ed.2d...

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