GREEN v. FERRELL

Nos. 80-3013, 81-4047.

664 F.2d 1292 (1982)

Tyrone GREEN, et al., Plaintiffs, John H. Owens, Jr., etc., Movant-Appellant, v. William T. (Billy) FERRELL, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Tyrone GREEN, et al., Plaintiffs, John Edney, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. William T. (Billy) FERRELL, et al., Defendants-Appellees. Moses BELTON, Individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. William T. (Billy) FERRELL, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied February 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shirley E. Payne, Hazlehurst, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Handy, Fitzpatrick, Gwin, Blough & Lewis, Lucien C. Gwin, Jr., Natchez, Miss., W. V. Westbrook, III, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

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


Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied February 9, 1982.

CLARK, Chief Judge:

These consolidated appeals arise from the dismissals for lack of subject matter jurisdiction of a prisoners' class action for equitable relief and an individual prisoner's action for damages, and from the denial of a pretrial detainee's motion for leave to intervene. The prisoners' actions challenged the conditions of confinement at Adams County Jail. After denying the intervention...

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