GREEN v. McKASKLE

No. 84-2172.

770 F.2d 445 (1985)

Isiah Carl GREEN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dan V. McKASKLE, Acting Director, Texas Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 26, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles Dewey Cole, Jr., New York City, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Adrian L. Young, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOLDBERG, REAVLEY and GARWOOD, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff Isiah Carl Green is a paraplegic who seeks to recover damages and obtain injunctive and declaratory relief because of the conditions of his confinement by the Texas Department of Corrections (TDC). The district judge, of the Southern District of Texas and not the judge presiding over the ongoing class action suit related to the Texas prisons, rendered judgment against Green. The holding was, in part, that the equitable claims arising...

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