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FORTS v. WARD

No. 77 Civ. 1560.

434 F.Supp. 946 (1977)

Iola FORTS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Benjamin WARD et al., Defendants.

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

June 17, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bronx Legal Services Corp. by Stephen M. Latimer, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. by Margery Evans Reifler, Asst. Atty. Gen., Leonard J. Pugatch, Deputy Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, for State defendants Ward, Clement, Reid and Osterman.

Rowley & Forrest, Albany, N. Y. by William Babiskin, Albany, N. Y., for Union defendants Council 82, Clayton DeFayette, Carl F. Gray, Local 1265 and A. V. Yarrell.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

Four months ago, the State of New York commenced assigning male correction officers to duties in the housing and hospital units of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility for Women. Plaintiffs, ten inmates, moved for a preliminary injunction enjoining the State defendants, Benjamin Ward, Frances Clement, Dorothy Reid and Melvin Osterman, Jr. and the union defendants, Security Unit Employees Council 82, Clayton DeFayette...

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