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WILLIAMS v. EDWARDS

Nos. 75-2792, 75-3883.

547 F.2d 1206 (1977)

Hayes WILLIAMS et al., Plaintiff-Appellees, v. Edwin EDWARDS, Governor of the State of Louisiana, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 15, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanford O. Bardwell, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen., William J. Guste, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, La., for defendants-appellants.

David L. Morgan, Jr., Luke J. Fontana, Jr., New Orleans, La., for plaintiffs-appellees in Nos. 75-2792 and 75-3883.

David J. Vanderhoof, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., Douglas M. Gonzales, U. S. Atty., Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs-appellees in No. 75-2792.

Jessica Dunsay Silver, Dept. of Justice, Brian K. Landsberg, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae.

Before COLEMAN, AINSWORTH and INGRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

AINSWORTH, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a District Court decision that prisoner conditions at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola violate the Constitution of the United States and certain laws of the State of Louisiana, and from its order that if the prison is to continue in operation it must be done constitutionally. The court ordered that certain specified and detailed relief, "immediate," "intermediate...

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