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WILLIAMS v. GRIFFIN

No. 89-6409.

952 F.2d 820 (1991)

Eddie WILLIAMS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. J.H. GRIFFIN, Superintendent; J.C. Harris, Jr., Area Administrator; Aaron J. Johnson, Secretary of Corrections, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided December 30, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric J. Glassman, Student Counsel, Appellate Litigation Clinical Program, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C., argued (Steven H. Goldblatt, Director, Beth E. Cook, Supervising Atty., Lisa Ellis, Christine R. Engelmaier, Student Counsel, on brief), for plaintiff-appellant.

Ronna Dawn Gibbs, Associate Atty. Gen., North Carolina Dept. of Justice, Raleigh, N.C., argued (Lacy H. Thornburg, Atty. Gen., Sylvia Thibaut, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for defendants-appellees.

Before HALL and MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judges, and WILLIAMS, District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

OPINION

MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:

Eddie Williams, a North Carolina prisoner, filed a pro se verified complaint under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking monetary damages, an injunction and declaratory relief as a result of prison overcrowding combined with unsanitary conditions. The defendants, various state prison officials ("the Prison Officials"), moved for summary judgment and dismissal. The district court notified Williams of the filing of the summary...

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