SELLARS v. BETO

No. 71-6789.

409 U.S. 968 (1972)

SELLARS ET AL. v. BETO, CORRECTIONS DIRECTOR.

Supreme Court of United States.

October 24, 1972.


Motion of National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union et al. for leave to file a brief as amici curiae granted. Certiorari denied.

MR. JUSTICE DOUGLAS, with whom MR. JUSTICE BRENNAN and MR. JUSTICE MARSHALL concur, dissenting.

I vote to hear this case because it raises substantial questions of law in the area of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Petitioners are inmates of the Texas Department of Corrections (T.D.C.). They...

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