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UNITED STATES EX. REL. HOOVER v. ELSEA

No. 79 C 790.

501 F.Supp. 83 (1980)

UNITED STATES of America ex rel. Larry HOOVER, Randy Dillard, Harlan deSavieu, Herbert Stephens, Willie Clark, Leroy Hairston, Larry Gambrell, Samuel Smith, Luther Coburn, Michael Anderson, Petitioners, v. Robert ELSEA, Warden, Metropolitan Correctional Center, Chicago, Illinois; Gayle Franzen, Director, Illinois Department of Corrections, Louis Brewer, Warden, Stateville Prison, Respondents.

United States District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

September 23, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan C. Moore, Jeffrey Haas, G. Flint Taylor, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Kirk R. Shearburn, Maywood, Ill., Emory Andrew Tate, Tate & Associates, Chicago, Ill., for petitioners.

Thomas P. Sullivan, U. S. Atty., Edward J. Moran, Asst. U. S. Atty., Patricia Bornor, Ill. Dept. of Corrections, Chicago, Ill., for respondents.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CROWLEY, District Judge.

Ten Stateville prisoners brought this action, under 28 U.S.C. § 2254, seeking a writ of habeas corpus. Petitioners allege that they were transferred from Stateville to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in February, 1979, in preparation for transfer to federal penitentiaries throughout the United States. Contending that the transfers are illegal, petitioners request that they be released from federal...

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