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SHIRLEY v. CHESTNUT

No. 78-1524.

603 F.2d 805 (1979)

Elden Duane SHIRLEY, Jr., Bernard F. Ellis, Ronald D. Barnette, Marvin O. Smith, Jerry Glen Miller, Robert Earl Jackson, Gerald Pate, Lewis Altman, Frederick D. Bray, Emmett Ray Daniels, Karl Dillar, Jr., Dewey L. Hurd, Fred A. Jones, Marcus Jackson, Billy R. Langkeit, Billy E. Manley, Jarvis Mitchell, John Wayne Parsons, Billy Roberts and Paul Gene Crawford, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Charles C. CHESTNUT, Littleton Fowler, H. D. Binns, Jr., Lillian Russell and Robert Copeland, Individually and in their capacities members of the Pardon & Parole Board of the State of Oklahoma, and Governor David Boren, Individually and in his capacity as Governor of the State of Oklahoma, and Cynthia Myerson, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Decided August 10, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Hood and Jim Ikard, of Courbois, Chew, Ikard & Hood, Mark S. Schwartz, Mary E. Bane, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Louis W. Bullock, Tulsa, Okl., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Larry Derryberry, State's Atty. Gen., Joe H. Enos, and Harold B. McMillan, Asst. State's Attys. Gen., Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants-appellees.

Before SETH, Chief Judge, BARRETT and LOGAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Appellants, inmates of various Oklahoma State Penal Institutions, filed an action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma in which they sought declaratory and injunctive relief in connection with denial of parole release. Specifically, appellants sought a declaration that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment requires published criteria for parole release, access to adverse material in inmate files, right to...

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