Al-Jundi v. Rockefeller

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER ELFVIN, District Judge.

Now before me in this protracted civil rights litigation involving events surrounding the “retaking” of D-yard at the Attica (N.Y.) Correctional Facility September 13, 1971, are motions under Fed.R.Civ.P. rule 26(c) by several defendants for protective orders. At issue is the propriety of identical sets of documents listing 154 admission requests that have been served on each party. Motions have been brought by defendants Mancusi, Monahan, Oswald, Pfeil, and on behalf of defendant Estate of Nelson A. Rockefeller by the executors. Defendants Monahan,…