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HAWKINS v. ELLIOTT

Civ. A. No. 74-935.

385 F.Supp. 354 (1974)

Roger D. HAWKINS and Dubose H. Moye, Jr., Plaintiffs, v. Chief ELLIOTT et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. South Carolina, Columbia Division.

September 27, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger D. Hawkins, pro se.

Dubose H. Moye, Jr., pro se.

Emmet H. Clair, Asst. Atty. Gen. for the State of S. C., Columbia, S. C., for defendants.

ORDER

HEMPHILL, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, presently in residence in the South Carolina Department of Corrections, having received from this court (July 16, 1974) permission to proceed in forma pauperis,1 brings suit against defendants for cruel and unusual punishment. They claim, individually and collectively, that defendants, all Corrections Department officials, subjected them to tear gas exposure, placed them in a...

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