Larry TUCKER, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, Plaintiff-Appellant,
Melvin P., a minor, by his Next Friend, Sandra Powell, Applicant for Intervention-Appellant,
v.
George PHYFER, who is sued individually and as Director for the Alabama Department of Youth Services; Charles Fred Collisson, individually and as Region I Coordinator, for the Alabama Department of Youth Services; Lauderdale County, Alabama; J.R. Austin, James H. Hamilton, Selton Killen, Larry J. Hayes, individually and as Commissioners of Lauderdale County, Alabama; Billy Townsend, individually and as Sheriff of Lauderdale County, Alabama; Deborah Bell Paseur, Judge of the Juvenile Court of Lauderdale County, Alabama; Harry Williams, individually and as Chief Probation Officer of Lauderdale County, Alabama, Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
June 22, 1987.
June 22, 1987.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
James R. Bell, Youth Law Center, Carole B. Shauffer, Loren M. Warboys, San Francisco, Cal., John R. Benn, Robert W. Bunch, Florence, Ala., Mark I. Soler, Youth Law Center, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff-appellant.
Marvin A. Wilson, Florence, Ala., for Billy Townsend.
J.R. Brooks, Huntsville, Ala., for Lauderdale County, Ala., J.R. Austin, William Duncan, James H. Hamilton, Larry J. Hayes & Selton Killen.
Thomas R. Christian, Montgomery, Ala., William J. Samford, II, Mt. Meigs, Ala., Robert T.J. Childers, Montgomery, Ala., for George Phyfer, Charles F. Collisson, Deborah Bell Paseur & Harry Williams.
Before TJOFLAT and HATCHETT, Circuit Judges, and EATON, Senior District Judge.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
TJOFLAT, Circuit Judge:
I.
Appellant, Larry Tucker, was sixteen years old when his mother and Next Friend, Ruby Tucker, filed this case on his behalf on September 25, 1981. Tucker was incarcerated in the Lauderdale County jail in Florence, Alabama, and he claimed that the defendants, the Lauderdale County sheriff and other officials responsible for the operation of the jail, were confining him and other juveniles...
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