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CHILES v. THORNBURGH

No. 86-5926.

865 F.2d 1197 (1989)

Lawton CHILES, Jr., Plaintiff-Appellant, Bob Martinez, Metropolitan Dade County, et al., Intervenors-Appellants, v. Richard THORNBURGH, Attorney General of the United States, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 16, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parker D. Thomson, Thomson Zeder Bohrer Werth & Razook, Cloyce L. Mangas, Jr., Miami, Fla., for Lawton Chiles, Jr.

Gregory C. Smith, Tallahassee, Fla., for Gov. Bob Martinez.

William F. Hamilton, Holland & Knight, Miami, Fla., for Krome Temporary Detainees X and Y, etc.

Thomas H. Robertson, Dade County Atty's Office, Miami, Fla., for Metropolitan Dade County.

Dexter W. Lehtinen, U.S. Atty., Robyn J. Hermann, Mayra Reyler Lichter, Linda Collins Hertz, Peter Prieto, Asst. U.S. Attys., Miami, Fla., for Edwin Meese, et al.

Before KRAVITCH and CLARK, Circuit Judges, and ESCHBACH, Senior Circuit Judge.

CLARK, Circuit Judge:

In November of 1985, Lawton Chiles, a United States Senator from Florida, filed an action against the Attorney General of the United States and several other Department of Justice (DOJ) officials, and the Secretary of the Department of Defense (DOD), alleging that the federal government was operating Krome Detention Center (Krome), a federal facility located in Dade County, Florida, illegally. After...

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