ARNEY v. SIMMONS

No. 95-3036-DES.

923 F.Supp. 173 (1996)

Jouett Edgar ARNEY, Fred E. Baker, Robert Bookless, and Gary Lee McColpin, Plaintiffs, v. Charles E. SIMMONS, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

April 8, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirk W. Lowry, Palmer & Lowry, Topeka, KS, Lynette F. Petty, John F. Carpinelli, Todd R. Stramel, Jeffrey D. Wicks, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS, Stephen M. Kirschbaum, Wyandotte-Leavenworth Legal Services, Kansas City, KS, for Jouett Edgar Arney.

Kirk W. Lowry, Palmer & Lowry, Topeka, KS, Lynette F. Petty, John F. Carpinelli, Todd R. Stramel, Jeffrey D. Wicks, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS, for Fred E. Baker, Robert A. Bookless, Gary A. McColpin.

Janie M. Hulser, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Tonnette Lawhorn, Dallas, TX, Pro Se.

Dawn Dale, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Stephanie Stewart, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Mary Middleton, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Mary Skinner, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Jody Craddock, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Donna Tanksley, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Lowell H. Listrom, Kansas City, MO, Pro Se.

Karmaletha R. Brown, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

April M. Clay, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Lesa Morton, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Andrea Jennings, Topeka Correctional Facility, Topeka, KS, Pro Se.

Willie Nero, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Dennis Lee Soper, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Willie Robinson, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Derick Chappell, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

David L. Fletcher, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Roy E. Humphry, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Wayne L. Morris, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Dennis (nmi) House, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Elton D. Garrett, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Rose M. Arney, Jersey City, NJ, Pro Se.

Carl Kemp, Kansas State Penitentiary, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

John Waldo Jones, Hutchinson Correctional Facility, Hutchinson, KS, Pro Se.

Rose Mary Maberry, Pro Se.

Brian L. Brown, Hutchinson, KS, Pro Se.

Richard Arlen Miller, Hutchinson Correctional Facility, Hutchinson, KS, Pro Se.

Ervin Triplett, New Hampshire State Prison, Concord, NH, Pro Se.

Artis T. Kato, Rahway, NJ, Pro Se.

Lee Coleman, Delta Regional Unit, Dermott, AR, Pro Se.

George Arce, Fallsburg, NY, Pro Se.

Mark Miller, Lansing, KS, Pro Se.

Melvin Romero, Pro Se.

Kirk W. Lowry, Palmer & Lowry, Topeka, KS, Lynette F. Petty, Washburn University School of Law, Topeka, KS, for Fred E. Baker, Robert A. Bookless, Gary A. McColpin.

Michael C. Cavell, Michael D. Moeller, William R. Drexel, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Topeka, KS, Michael G. Smith, Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., St. Louis, MO, for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.

Stewart L. Entz, Entz & Chanay, Topeka, KS, William K. Waugh, III, John L. Vratil, William G. Howard, Lathrop & Gage L.C., Overland Park, KS, for American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

Lisa J. Henoch, Bryan Cave L.L.P., Kansas City, MO, Donna M. Roberts, MCI Telecommunications, Washington, DC, Loren W. Moll, Bryan Cave L.L.P., Overland Park, KS, for MCI Telecommunications Corporation.

Linden G. Appel, Kansas Department of Corrections, Topeka, KS, for Kansas Secretary of Corrections, Charles E. Simmons.


ORDER

SAFFELS, Senior District Judge.

Four plaintiffs confined in Lansing Correctional Facility in Lansing, Kansas, proceed with appointed counsel on a civil rights complaint filed pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, in which they allege constitutional error in a proposed method for providing telephone access to inmates at the facility. The Secretary of Corrections for the State of Kansas is the sole defendant.

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