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BRYANT v. McGINNIS

Civ. Nos. 9395, 11569.

463 F.Supp. 373 (1978)

Willis X. BRYANT, Lionel X. Jones, and Arthur Johnson, Plaintiffs, v. Paul McGINNIS, Defendant.

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

November 22, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul I. Birzon and Cheryl S. Fisher, Buffalo, N. Y., for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N. Y., New York City (John R. Stewart, Asst. Atty. Gen., Albany, N. Y., of counsel), for defendant.

CURTIN, Chief Judge.

With the damages trial of this matter, held on May 2, 1978, the long and tortuous path of this litigation wends closer to a final resolution.

PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

This action was begun nearly seventeen years ago on October 10, 1961, when William SaMarion filed with this court a handwritten, pro se civil rights complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 in which he alleged that he and other inmates of the Attica State Prison...

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