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VEST v. LUBBOCK CTY. COM'RS COURT

Civ. A. No. CA-5-76-53.

444 F.Supp. 824 (1977)

Edward Lee VEST, Gilbert M. Ramirez, and Henry S. Stiehl, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, United States of America, Intervenor, v. LUBBOCK COUNTY COMMISSIONERS COURT and Lubbock County Commissioners, Arch Lamb, Max Arrants, Les Derrick, Alton Brazell, County Judge Rodrick Shaw, C. H. Choc Blanchard, and Texas Commission on Jail Standards, Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Lubbock Division.

May 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. M. Hackworth, David Vanderhoff, U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for intervenor.

E. Warren Goss, Tom West, Daniel H. Benson, Lubbock, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Joe B. Dibrell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. of Texas, Austin, Tex., for Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

Alton R. Griffin, Crim. Dist. Atty., Lubbock, Tex., for rest of defendants.

MEMORANDUM

WOODWARD, Chief Judge.

The above-named plaintiffs have filed a suit on their own behalf as well as on behalf of all prisoners who were incarcerated in the Lubbock County Jail on the date of May 14, 1976, as well as those prisoners who had previously filed complaints in this court on the subject matter of this suit, together with all prisoners who may be incarcerated in said jail up to the time of the trial which commenced on April 11, 1977 and...

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