Noah Carl McNair v. G. R. McCune Warden, Federal Reformatory, Petersburg, Virginia

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• “[I]t is a sufficient statement of federal jurisdiction in habeas corpus to redress punitive segregation imposed without a hearing for the relatively innocuous offense of ‘wearing the wrong kind of clothing.’”
• “Because the facts have not been ascertained, we are compelled to assume the truth of the complaint, and because it was prepared pro se, to construe it liberally.”

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