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UNITED STATES EX REL. MOTLEY v. RUNDLE

Civ. A. No. 41023.

340 F.Supp. 807 (1972)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Matthew MOTLEY v. Alfred T. RUNDLE, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution at Graterford and Arthur T. Prasse, Commissioner, State Correctional Institution at Graterford.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 29, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen A. Sheller, Howard Davidson, Astor & Weiss, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Michael Luber, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dante Mattioni, Deputy Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., J. Shane Creamer, Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

JOSEPH S. LORD, III, Chief Judge.

This is a civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. § 1343. Plaintiff, an inmate at Graterford State Correctional Institution, filed his complaint on August 25, 1966, alleging that the defendants had violated his right to equal protection of the law under the Fourteenth Amendment. The defendants failed to answer...

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