GATES v. COLLIER

No. 75-3686.

548 F.2d 1241 (1977)

Nazareth GATES et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellant, v. John COLLIER et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 14, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy S. Haber, Boulder, Colo., Ronald R. Welch, Herman Wilson, David M. Lipman, Jackson, Miss., H. M. Ray, U. S. Atty., John R. Hailman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Oxford, Miss., Brian K. Landsberg, Judy E. Wolf, Dept. of Justice, Appellate Section, Civil Division, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs-appellants.

A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen., Paul Roger Googe, Jr., James M. Ward, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

Before TUTTLE, AINSWORTH and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

This appeal was argued and submitted to the Court on May 10, 1976. It arises from an order of the trial court which granted substantial relief at the behest of the individual parties and of the United States as intervenor with respect to the operation of the prison system of the State of Mississippi. The appeal was based upon a complaint that the trial court's orders that had been entered in August and October, 1975 while properly finding existing conditions...

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