HARRIS v. THIGPEN

Nos. 90-7083, 90-7100.

941 F.2d 1495 (1991)

Carmen Jean HARRIS and Leslie John Pettway, Plaintiffs-Appellants, James Hollifield, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Morris THIGPEN, Commissioner of the DOC, Jean W. Hare, Warden, J.D. White, (Warden-Limestone), Lynn Harrelson, (Warden-Kilby), Correctional Health Care, Inc., Dr. George Sutton, Ala. Medical Director (CHC), Brice R. Paul, Sheriff of Coffee County, Alabama, Coffee County, Alabama and Fred Payne, Defendants-Appellees, Georgia Rudolph, et al., Defendants, Stewart M. Hughey, etc., et al., Defendants-Intervenors, Alabama Department of Corrections, its agents and employees, Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee. Carmen Jean HARRIS and Leslie John Pettway, Plaintiffs-Appellees, James Hollifield, et al., Plaintiffs, v. Morris THIGPEN, Commissioner of DOC, Jean Hare, Warden, J.D. White, (Warden-Limestone), Lynn Harrelson, (Warden-Kilby), Correctional Health Care, Inc., Dr. George Sutton, Ala. Medical Director (CHC), Brice R. Paul, Sheriff of Coffee County, Alabama, Coffee County, Alabama and Fred Payne, Defendants-Appellants, Georgia Rudolph, et al., Defendants, Stewart M. Hughey, AIS # 131035, Adam Lamar Robinson, Chuck Stoudemire, AIS # 153319, Alabama Department of Corrections, its agents and employees, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alexa P. Freeman, Elizabeth Alexander, ACLU Nat. Prison Project, Washington D.C., Howard Mandell, Mandell & Boyd, Montgomery, Ala., Nancy Ortega, Stephen B. Bright, Southern Prisoners' Defense Committee, Atlanta, Ga., for plaintiffs-appellants in no. 90-7083.

Harry A. Lyles, Horace N. Lynn, Andrew Redd, Alice B. Wilhelm, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, Scott R. Talkington, David B. Byrne, Jr., Robinson & Belser, P.A., Jack M. Curtis, Dept. of Public Safety Legal Unit, Montgomery, Ala., Geary A. Gaston, Reams, Vollmer, Philips, Killion, Brooks & Schell, PC, Mobile, Ala., Daryl L. Masters, Webb, Crumpton, McGregor, Davis & Alley, Montgomery, Ala., Dorothy F. Norwood, Correctional Health Care, Inc., Mt. Meigs, Ala., for defendants-appellees in no. 90-7083.

Neil King, Wilmer, Cutley & Pickering, Washington, D.C., for amicus, Aids Action Counsel.

Harry A. Lyles, Horace N. Lynn, Andrew W. Redd, Alice Ann Boswell, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, David B. Byrne, Jr., Robison & Belser, P.A., Scott R. Talkington, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellants in No. 90-7100.

Alexa P. Freeman, ACLU Nat. Prison Project, Elizabeth Alexander, Alvin J. Bronstein, Washington, D.C., Nancy Ortega, Steve Bright, Southern Prisoners' Defense Committee, Atlanta, Ga., Dorothy F. Norwood, Kilby Correctional Facility, Mt. Meigs, Ala., Geary A. Gaston, Reams, Vollmer, Philips, Killion, Brooks & Schell, PC, Mobile, Ala., Howard A. Mandell, Mandell & Boyd, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiff-appellees in No. 90-7083.

Before FAY and BIRCH, Circuit Judges, and HOFFMAN, Senior District Judge.


FAY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants appeal the post-trial dismissal of their class action civil rights challenge to various policies and procedures of defendant-appellee, the Alabama Department of Corrections ("DOC"). The appellants raise four issues involving the DOC's policy of uniformly segregating from the general prison population those prisoners who test positive for exposure to Human Immunodeficiency Virus ("HIV"), the virus commonly believed to be the...

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