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REED v. EVANS

No. CV478-160.

455 F.Supp. 1139 (1978)

Rick REED, Ralph Goldberg, Southern Prisoners Defense Committee, American Civil Liberties Union, Georgia Clearing-house on Prisons and Jails, and Gary Krist, Ron Streeter, John Lucear, Dwight Lindsey, and James Watson, Plaintiffs, v. David EVANS, Commissioner of the Department of Offender Rehabilitation, and Joe Hopper, Warden of Georgia State Prison, Individually and in their official capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Georgia, Savannah Division.

August 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas M. West, Bowen, Derrickson, Goldberg & West, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs.

Arthur K. Bolton, Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., Griffin B. Bell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., Savannah, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER ON MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

LAWRENCE, District Judge.

This action is brought to require the defendants to admit a "paralegal" to the Georgia State Prison at Reidsville for the purpose of interviewing prisoner clients of an attorney. Plaintiffs sought a temporary restraining order which was, in effect, a mandatory injunction. The TRO was denied by this Court on July 3, 1978. An evidentiary hearing at Savannah was held on the rule to show cause...

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