BLACK v. AMICO

Civ. No. 74-540.

387 F.Supp. 88 (1974)

Big BLACK and Shango Bahati Kakawana, Plaintiffs, v. Michael AMICO, Individually and as Sheriff of Erie County, et al., Defendants.

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

December 20, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plaintiffs pro se., Michael Deutsch, and Thomas Burke, Buffalo, N. Y., of counsel, for plaintiffs.

James L. Magavern, Erie County Atty. (William J. Diggins, Buffalo, of counsel), Buffalo, N. Y., for defendants.


CURTIN, Chief Judge.

This action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, was commenced on November 22, 1974. The defendants were directed to show cause why an order should not be entered which, among other things, enjoined them from requiring one of the plaintiffs, Big Black, also known as Frank Smith, to submit to a strip search prior to visiting Shango Bahati Kakawana, also known as Bernard Stroble, at the Erie County Holding Center [E.C.H.C.]. The purpose of...

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