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SHAKUR v. BELL

No. 78 Civ. 1266 (LFM).

447 F.Supp. 958 (1978)

Assata SHAKUR, Plaintiff, v. Griffin B. BELL, Individually and as Attorney General of the United States, William H. Webster, Individually and as Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Norman Carlson, Individually and as Director of the United States Bureau of Prisons, Robert McGuire, Individually and as Commissioner of Police for the City of New York, State of New York, William Curios, Individually and as Commissioner of the Bureau of Corrections of the City of New York, State of New York, Essie Murph, Individually and as Superintendent of the Women's House of Detention of the City of New York, State of New York, William G. Connellie, Individually and as Superintendent of New York State Police and William Fauver, Individually and as Acting Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections, Defendants.

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

March 30, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Evelyn A. Williams, New York City, for plaintiff.

Robert B. Fiske, Jr., U. S. Atty., for the S. D. of New York by Stuart M. Bernstein, Asst. U. S. Atty., New York City, for defendants Griffin B. Bell, William H. Webster and Norman Carlson.

OPINION

MacMAHON, District Judge.

Plaintiff Assata Shakur, convicted of murder in a New Jersey state court and now lodged at Riker's Island on a New York state detainer, brought this civil rights action, seeking, inter alia, to enjoin her transfer to Alderson Correctional Facility for Women ("Alderson") in West Virginia. Pursuant to Rule 65(a), Fed.R.Civ.P., Shakur moves for an order granting a preliminary injunction against her return to New Jersey...

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