Legal Opinion
Wilfred Roy French v. Fred A. Butterworth
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided January 31, 1980No. 79-1338PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
This case arose when Wilfred Roy French, a prisoner at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Walpole, attempted to become a distributor of Erewhon natural foods within the prison. He collected the signatures of hundreds of inmates who supported his proposal to make health food available at a low profit margin, not to exceed 2%. Prison Superintendent Fred Butterworth turned down the proposal.
Aggrieved by this decision, French filed a class action against Butterworth pursuant to 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985. In the complaint, French alleged that, after denying his…
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