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COOPER v. NOBLE

No. 93-7678.

41 F.3d 212 (1994)

James COOPER, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. W.B. "Billy" NOBLE, Sheriff of Madison County, et al., Defendants, Jessie Hopkins, Sheriff of Madison County, Robert J. Dowdle, Marcus Sharpe, David H. Richardson, Karl M. Banks & J.L. McCullough, Members of the Madison County Board of Supervisors, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 15, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rebecca Cowan, C.R. Montgomery, Montgomery, Smith-Vaniz & McGraw, Jackson, MS, for appellants.

Tara Walker, Lindia Pilcher Robinson, Ronald Reid Welch, Terry Wallace, Jackson, MS, for appellees.

Before WIENER, EMILIO M. GARZA, and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:

We supplement our prior opinion, see Cooper v. Noble, 33 F.3d 540 (5th Cir.1994), as follows:

The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 ("the Act"), P.L. 103-322, 108 Stat. 1796, effective September 13, 1994, provides for periodic reopening "at the behest of a defendant" of court orders or consent decrees seeking to remedy prison or jail crowding that violates the Eighth...

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