RUIZ v. LYNAUGH

No. 86-2772.

811 F.2d 856 (1987)

David RUIZ, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. James A. LYNAUGH, Interim Director, Texas Department of Corrections, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 23, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Scott McCown, Melinda Hoyle Bozarth, Asst. Attys. Gen., Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Austin, Tex., for defendants-appellants.

William Bennett Turner, Turner & Brorby, San Francisco, Cal., Joel Berger, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before THORNBERRY, DAVIS, and HILL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The Texas Department of Corrections (TDC) appeals the district court's refusal to modify a consent decree that TDC entered into with the plaintiff class of TDC inmates. For the reasons stated below, we affirm.

I.

After many years of litigation over the overcrowded conditions of TDC, TDC and representatives of the plaintiff class filed the Stipulation Modifying Crowding Provisions of the Amended Decree (Crowding Stipulation). In the Crowding...

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