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BURGESS v. ROTH

Civ. A. No. 71-938.

387 F.Supp. 1155 (1975)

Walter A. BURGESS, Plaintiff, v. Lawrence V. ROTH, Jr., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 9, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Welks, Nancy Loeb, Law Students, Indigent Prisoner Litigation Program, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff.

Richard W. Hollstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., Philadelphia, Pa., for defendants.

OPINION

HIGGINBOTHAM, District Judge.

INTRODUCTION

Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1970), plaintiff, Walter A. Burgess, brought this civil rights action, alleging that defendants deprived him of rights secured to him by the Fifth, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States by detaining him in prison for six days after they had decided to release him. The individual defendants were or are members of the Board of...

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