HOOKS v. WAINWRIGHT

Nos. 71-144-Civ-J-S, 71-1011-Civ-J-S.

540 F.Supp. 652 (1982)

Harold Raymond HOOKS, et al., Plaintiffs, Michael E. Provence, et al., Plaintiffs-Intervenors, v. Louie L. WAINWRIGHT, Secretary, Department of Corrections, Defendant.

United States District Court, M. D. Florida, Jacksonville Division.

June 7, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven M. Goldstein, Jacksonville, Fla., Bruce Rogow, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for Timothy Charles Palmes.

Sydney H. McKenzie, III, Tallahassee, Fla., for defendant.

Richard A. Belz, Thomas A. Daniel, Gainesville, Fla., for plaintiffs-intervenors.

Charles H. Livingston, Sarasota, Fla., for plaintiffs.

David J. W. Vanderhoof, Washington, D. C., for Dept. of Justice.

Professor Leslie Harold Levinson, Nashville, Tenn., Thomas McAiley, Miami, Fla., for amicus curiae.


ORDER

CHARLES R. SCOTT, Senior District Judge.

This matter is before the Court upon the motion of Timothy Charles Palmes for stay of his execution set for June 15, 1982, and for other emergency relief. Palmes filed the motion in his capacity as a member of the plaintiff class in the above-styled cause. Because the Court has determined that it lacks subject matter jurisdiction to render the sought-after relief, the motion will be denied.

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