RUIZ v. ESTELLE

Nos. 81-2224, 81-2380 and 81-2390.

666 F.2d 854 (1982)

David R. RUIZ, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee, v. W. J. ESTELLE, Jr., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 14, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark White, Atty. Gen. of Tex., Ed Idar, Jr., Douglas M. Becker, Asst. Attys. Gen., Pike Powers, Kenneth L. Petersen, Jr., Austin, Tex., Lee C. Clyburn, William R. Pakalka, Jerry E. Smith, Houston, Tex., Keith A. Jones, Washington, D. C., for defendants-appellants.

Donald W. Jackson, Edward J. Landry, Asst. County Attys., Houston, Tex., for Heard.

William Bennett Turner, San Francisco, Cal., Steven L. Winter, Joel Berger, Jack Greenberg, New York City, Samuel T. Briscoe, Dallas, Tex., for Ruiz, et al.

Jim D. Wiginton, Angleton, Tex., for L. D. Hilliard.

Dennis J. Dimsey, W. Bradford Reynolds, Attys., Appellate Section, Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for the U. S.

David Crump, Susan E. Waite, The Legal Foundation of America, Houston, Tex., for amicus, The Legal Foundation of America.

Alvin J. Bronstein, Elizabeth Alexander, ACLU, Washington, D. C., for amicus, ACLU-National Prison Project.

Before CHARLES CLARK, Chief Judge, RUBIN and TATE, Circuit Judges.


ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:

The State of Texas for the second time asks us to stay some of the provisions of the injunctive decree rendered by the district court.1 The decree requires the Texas Department of Corrections ("TDC") to make numerous changes in its prisons and their administration. In Ruiz v. Estelle, 650 F.2d 555 (5th Cir. 1981) (per curiam) (Ruiz I), we granted a stay of some...

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