INMATES OF NEBRASKA PENAL, ETC. v. GREENHOLTZ

No. 77-1889.

576 F.2d 1274 (1978)

INMATES OF the NEBRASKA PENAL AND CORRECTIONAL COMPLEX, Richard C. Walker, William Randolph, Richard J. Leary, Robert L. Gamron, Frederick L. Grant, Wayne Goham and Charles LaPlante, Appellees, v. John B. GREENHOLTZ, Individually, and as Chairman, Nebraska Board of Parole, Eugene E. Neal, Catherine R. Dahlquist, Marshall M. Tate, and Edward M. Rowley, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided May 18, 1978.

Rehearing Denied June 9, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph H. Gillan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lincoln, Neb., argued, Paul L. Douglas, Atty. Gen., on brief, for appellants.

Brian Ridenour, Nelson, Harding, Yeutter, Leonard & Tate, Lincoln, Neb., for appellees.

Before HEANEY and STEPHENSON, Circuit Judges, and BECKER, District Judge.


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied June 9, 1978.

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

The defendants-appellants, members of the state of Nebraska Board of Parole (Board), appeal from the decision of the district court1 in this class action suit arising under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The district court held that the plaintiffs-appellees, inmates of the Nebraska Penal Complex (inmates), had been denied procedural due process by the Board...

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