PARADISE v. PRESCOTT

Civ. A. No. 3561-N.

580 F.Supp. 171 (1983)

Phillip PARADISE, Jr., individually and on behalf of the class similarly situated, Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff and Amicus Curiae, v. Byron PRESCOTT, as Director of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, etc., et al., Defendants, V.E. McClellan, et al., Defendants-Intervenors.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

October 28, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Carroll, Dennis N. Balske, Montgomery, Ala., for plaintiffs.

John C. Bell, U.S. Atty., Montgomery, Ala., Cynthia Drabek, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Charles A. Graddick, Richard N. Meadows, Rosa H. Davis, Montgomery, Ala., Edward L. Hardin, Jr., Birmingham, Ala., Ray Acton, Ken Wallis (legal adviser for governor), Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

James S. Ward, Birmingham, Ala., for defendants-intervenors.


ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This cause is now before the court on the plaintiffs' April 7, 1983, motion to enforce the terms of two previously entered consent decrees. A hearing was held on the motion on May 27, 1983. For reasons which follow, the plaintiffs are entitled to relief.

I.

On February 10, 1972, the court found that the defendant officials of the Alabama Department of Public Safety had "engaged in a blatant and continuous...

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