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ROBERTS v. TENNESSEE DEPT. OF CORRECTION

No. 89-5307.

887 F.2d 1281 (1989)

Dalton ROBERTS, County Executive of Hamilton County; Floyd Fuller, Superintendent of the Hamilton County Workhouse; H.Q. Evatt, Sheriff of Hamilton County, Tn, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. TENNESSEE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION, and its Commissioner; W. Jeff Reynolds, individually and in his capacity as Commissioner; Charles Burson, State Attorney General, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided October 5, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Mahn, O. Michael Carter, Asst. County Atty., Chattanooga, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellees.

David M. Himmelreich, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General of Tennessee, Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Before MERRITT, Chief Judge, NELSON, Circuit Judge, and LIVELY, Senior Circuit Judge.

ORDER

INTRODUCTION

Following oral argument in this case, the Court entered an order inviting the parties in this case and in Wayne Carver v. Knox County v. Ned McWherter, CA Nos. 89-5341/5369, to enter into settlement negotiations through this Court's conference attorneys, pursuant to Sixth Circuit Rule 18, for the purpose of devising a statewide system of relief from local jail overcrowding that could...

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