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THOMAS v. JAMES

No. 80-7840.

661 F.2d 67 (1981)

John H. THOMAS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fob JAMES, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Lincoln HEARD, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Joe OLIVER, Warden, Defendant-Appellant. George Edward COWSEN, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Robert G. BRITTON, et al., Defendants-Appellants. Carl HALL, etc., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joe OLIVER, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B

November 12, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., Jack M. Curtis, John Gibbs, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for defendants-appellants.

James B. Newman, Mobile, Ala., for Thomas, Cowsen, Heard and Hall.

Before MORGAN, TJOFLAT and ANDERSON, Circuit Judges.

LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellees are six inmates at Holman Prison, a state facility in southern Alabama.1 They originally filed four separate civil actions against Alabama state officials pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and charged that several Holman regulations and security practices violated their constitutional rights. Their claims were consolidated and referred to a United States Magistrate pursuant to 28 U.S...

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