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GROSECLOSE v. DUTTON

No. 85-5525.

788 F.2d 356 (1986)

William GROSECLOSE; Rev. Joseph Ingle; Southern Coalition of Jails and Prisons; Tennessee Chapter of American Civil Liberties Union, individually and as next friends acting on behalf of Ronald Harries; and Ronald Harries, Petitioners-Appellees, v. Michael DUTTON and Ernest Pellegrin, Respondents-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Andrew Hoyal (argued), W.J. Michael Cody, Atty. Gen. of Tenn. Nashville, Tenn., John F. Southworth, Jr., Wayne E. Uhl, for respondents-appellants.

Joel Berger, New York City, for amicus curiae, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.

Larry D. Woods (argued), Woods & Woods, Nashville, Tenn., for petitioners-appellees.

Hal D. Hardin, Murfreesboro, Tenn., William P. Redick, Jr., Richard McGee, Nashville, Tenn., for Harries.

Before KRUPANSKY and GUY, Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

PER CURIAM.

This is a class action lawsuit brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The class of plaintiffs consists of death sentenced inmates confined to Unit VI of the Tennessee State Penitentiary in Nashville. The defendants are various officials of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC). Plaintiffs are challenging the conditions of confinement for death sentenced inmates in Unit VI.

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