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PATCHETTE v. NIX

Nos. 90-1853, 90-1868.

952 F.2d 158 (1991)

William Leroy PATCHETTE; Wayne Pickerell; Frank Longstreet; Don Steel; Steve Kick; and Richard Taylor, Appellees/Cross-Appellants, v. Crispus C. NIX and Paul Grossheim, Appellants/Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 29, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Hill, Asst. Atty. Gen., Des Moines, Iowa, argued (Gordon Allen, and Layne Lindebak, Asst. Attys. Gen., on brief), for appellants.

Philip B. Mears, Iowa City, Iowa, argued, for appellees.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON and BOWMAN, Circuit Judges, and SACHS, District Judge.

SACHS, Chief Judge.

William Leroy Patchette, a prisoner at Iowa State Penitentiary Farm I, sometimes referred to as the Augusta Unit, cross-appeals the decision of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa1 that conditions at Farm I do not violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. Farm I prison officials appeal the district court's decision that they...

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