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SOSTRE v. OTIS

No. 70 Civ. 1114.

330 F.Supp. 941 (1971)

Martin SOSTRE, Plaintiff, v. Nelson H. OTIS, Acting Superintendent of Wallkill Correctional Facility, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

July 28, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter L. Zimroth, Louis I. Parley, New York City, for plaintiff; Stanley A. Bass, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., of the State of New York, New York City, for defendants; Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Hillel Hoffman, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

MANSFIELD, Circuit Judge:*

In this action arising under the federal Civil Rights Law, 42 U.S.C. § 1983, plaintiff, Martin Sostre, seeks an order enjoining the supervisory personnel at Wallkill Correctional Facility, where Sostre is incarcerated pursuant to a 30 to 40-year sentence for a narcotics offense, from interfering with his receipt of literature which he has ordered through the mails. Sostre commenced the action in March 1970...

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