LONG v. NORRIS

Nos. 89-5377, 89-5378, 89-5379.

929 F.2d 1111 (1991)

Mariam LONG, Curtis Long, Anita Simmers, James Marlin Hodges, Karen Mills, and Ronnie S. Mills, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Steven NORRIS, Individually and as Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Corrections, Linda Roberts, Sam Chapman, Lisa Marshall, Irene Ladd, James Worthington, Charles Jones, Ruby Spakes, Gladys Noe, Charlene Smith, Barbara Wright, Kathy Hill, Linda Shipwash, Tom Mays, Dale Roberts Evans, Angie Thomas, Charles Brown, Sheena Ward, Teresa (Last Name Unknown), and Jackie Cornell, Defendants, Otie Jones, Individually and as Warden of the Morgan County Regional Correctional Facility, M.C. Hamby, Associate Warden, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 3, 1991.

Rehearing Denied April 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Allen (argued), Rural Legal Services of Tennessee, Oak Ridge, Tenn., Carol S. Nickle, Knoxville, Tenn., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Joe R. Judkins (argued), Wartburg, Tenn., for defendants-appellants.

Before MARTIN and BOGGS, Circuit Judges, and HACKETT, District Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

Defendants-appellants are the warden and associate warden of the Morgan County (Tennessee) Regional Correctional Facility. The wardens filed this interlocutory appeal in these consolidated civil rights actions brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Each of the three consolidated cases has two plaintiffs, one of whom was an inmate at the Morgan County prison during the relevant time period and one of whom was the inmate's spouse or...

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