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ABBOTT v. MEESE

No. 84-5718.

824 F.2d 1166 (1987)

Jack ABBOTT, et al., Appellants, v. Edwin MEESE, III, Attorney General of the United States, et al.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided July 28, 1987.

As Amended July 28, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven Ney, with whom Edward I. Koren and Alvin J. Bronstein, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellants.

Richard A. Stanley, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Royce C. Lamberth, R. Craig Lawrence and Michael J. Ryan, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellees.

Before EDWARDS and RUTH BADER GINSBURG, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

Opinion for the Court filed by Senior Circuit Judge FAIRCHILD.

FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

This action involved, among other things, regulation of correspondence between inmates of different prisons, and rejection of publications directed to inmates. Named plaintiffs were prisoners and former prisoners suing on behalf of themselves and all other prisoners in federal institutions. On June 7, 1974, the district court ordered that the action be maintained...

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