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COLE v. JOHNSON

Civ. A. No. 72-1089.

350 F.Supp. 492 (1972)

Henry A. COLE v. Robert L. JOHNSON, Superintendent, State Correctional Institution, Graterford.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

November 8, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Martha Field, Supervising Atty., Carol Mager, Student Participant, Prison Research Council, University of Pa. Law School, Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioner.

Michael Minkin, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., for respondent.

OPINION

LUONGO, District Judge.

Petitioner, Henry A. Cole, a state prisoner instituted suit under the Civil Rights Act of 1871, 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional counterpart, 28 U.S.C. § 1343, against Robert L. Johnson, Superintendent of the State Correctional Institution at Graterford, Pennsylvania, alleging violations of his Eighth Amendment right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment and his Fourteenth Amendment rights to procedural...

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