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POWELL v. COUGHLIN

No. 138, Docket 91-2199.

953 F.2d 744 (1991)

Elizabeth POWELL, Dalree Mapp, Katherine Purrington, Althea McDaniels, Paula Herbert, Cyndi Reed, Margaret Gatling, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Thomas A. COUGHLIN, III, individually and as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services; Elaine Ford, individually and as Superintendent of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 27, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara B. Butler, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City (Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., Lawrence Kahn, Deputy Sol. Gen., on the brief), for defendants-appellants.

Elizabeth L. Koob, New York City (Joan Magoolaghan, Neil Zirlin, Law Student, and Koob, Magoolaghan & Salzman, on the brief), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, NEWMAN and PRATT, Circuit Judges.

JON O. NEWMAN, Circuit Judge:

This appeal raises important issues concerning the continuing enforcement of an injunction governing prison disciplinary proceedings at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, a New York prison for women. The appeal has implications for the conduct of institutional reform litigation. New York corrections officials appeal from the March 19, 1991, order of the District Court for the Southern District of New York (Charles E. Stewart, Jr., Judge...

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