SPEAR v. SOWDERS

No. 93-5528.

71 F.3d 626 (1995)

Tina SPEAR, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Dewey SOWDERS, individually and in his official capacity as Warden of the Northpoint Training Center; and Dave Doe, Lois Doe, Lucy Doe, Phoebe Doe, Jennie Doe, Winslow Doe and Herman Doe, in their individual capacities as named unknown employees of the Northpoint Training Center, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Friedman (argued and briefed), Taustine, Post, Stosky, Berman, Fineman & Kohn, Louisville, KY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John T. Damron (argued and briefed), Office of the General Counsel Corrections Cabinet, Frankfort, KY, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MERRITT, Chief Judge; KENNEDY, MARTIN, JONES, MILBURN, NELSON, RYAN, BOGGS, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, BATCHELDER, DAUGHTREY, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.


BOGGS, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which MERRITT, C.J., KENNEDY, MILBURN, NELSON, RYAN, NORRIS, SUHRHEINRICH, SILER, and BATCHELDER, JJ., joined. JONES, J. (pp. 634-36), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part, in which MARTIN, DAUGHTREY, and MOORE, JJ., joined.

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

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