Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit October 4, 1974, 1074, Docket 74-1434 (Donald Wallace v. Michael Kern)

HAYS, Circuit Judge:

In July 1972 a committee of inmates awaiting trial or sentencing in the Brooklyn House of Detention for Men brought a class action pro se in the District Court for the Eastern District of New York. The defendants were six individual Justices of the New York Supreme Court, all of whom presided in criminal cases in Brooklyn.