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NEWMAN v. STATE OF ALA.

Nos. 81-7606, 81-8003.

683 F.2d 1312 (1982)

N. H. NEWMAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, et al., Amicus Curiae, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., Defendants-Appellees, Charles A. Graddick, Attorney General, State of Alabama, Movant-Appellant. N. H. NEWMAN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, et al., Amicus Curiae, v. STATE OF ALABAMA, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 9, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Graddick, Atty. Gen., pro se, Rosa G. Hamlett and John R. Lockett, Asst. Attys. Gen., Montgomery, Ala., for State of Ala.

Ralph I. Knowles, Jr., Tuscaloosa, Ala., M. R. Nachman, Jr., Montgomery, Ala., Jack Drake, University, Ala., for Governor James.

Robert D. Segal, John L. Carroll, Montgomery, Ala. (court-appointed), for Pugh.

John C. Bell, U. S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., for Bennett.

Philip H. Butler, Montgomery, Ala. (court-appointed), for Newman.

Alvin L. Bronstein, Washington, D. C., for Nat. Prison Projects/American Civ. Liberties Union.

Edwin A. Strickland, Birmingham, Ala., for Gloor, Doss and Edreich.

W. Scears Barnes, Alexander City, Ala., for Ala. Bd. of Corrections.

Before MORGAN, TJOFLAT and KRAVITCH, Circuit Judges.

TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:

On July 15 and December 14, 1981, the district court ordered officials of the Alabama Department of Corrections to release from custody several hundred convicted state prisoners as a means of reducing unconstitutional overcrowding in the Alabama prison system. In these consolidated cases, those officials, the Attorney General of Alabama, and the Governor of Alabama, as receiver of the Alabama prison...

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