RHEM v. MALCOLM

No. 70 Civ. 3962.

396 F.Supp. 1195 (1975)

James RHEM et al., Plaintiffs, v. Benjamin J. MALCOLM, Commissioner of Correction for the City of New York, et al., Defendants.

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

On Motion to Reopen June 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

The Legal Aid Society, New York City, for plaintiffs; William E. Hellerstein, Joel Berger, Steven A. Herman, New York City, of counsel.

W. Bernard Richland, Corp. Counsel, New York City, for defendants Benjamin J. Malcolm, Arthur Rubin and Abraham D. Beame; Donald Tobias, Asst. Corp. Counsel, New York City, of counsel.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., New York City, for defendants Peter Preiser, Hugh Carey and Owen McGivern; David Berman, New York City, of counsel.


LASKER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs and the City defendants move under Rule 59(e) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure to alter our judgment of February 20, 1975.1

I. Plaintiffs' requests for relief.

A. Number of Visitors.

Plaintiffs propose that the judgment be amended by providing that members of the plaintiff class be permitted to receive at least three visitors per visit. In support of their...

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