PARGO v. ELLIOTT

No. 94-3399.

49 F.3d 1355 (1995)

Cathy PARGO, Dale Bahmer, Kim Frazier, Sheryl Snodgrass, Christine Lockheart, Molly Bisson, Willetta Davis, Linda Thompson, Michele Neary, unknown persons of Iowa Men's Reformatory, unknown plaintiffs similarly situated, Appellants, v. Mildred ELLIOTT, Richard Vander Mey, Joni Keith, Harold McCormick, Jean Klingman, Johnny Brown, Jim Schweison, Barbara Olk-Long, Sally Chandler Halford, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided March 15, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C.A. Frerichs, Waterloo, IA, argued (Thomas P. Frerichs, on the brief), for appellants.

Layne M. Lindebak, Asst. Atty. Gen., argued, for appellees.

Before RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge, ROSS, Senior Circuit Judge, and MURPHY, Circuit Judge.


DIANA E. MURPHY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an adverse judgment entered after a court trial on the claims of the plaintiff class, inmates at the Iowa Correctional Institution for Women (ICIW). The women inmates at ICIW brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against Iowa Department of Corrections officials and the ICIW superintendent seeking injunctive relief. They allege that their equal protection rights have been violated because prison services and...

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