RIDDLE v. MONDRAGON

No. 93-2225.

83 F.3d 1197 (1996)

James RIDDLE, Lee Siemon, Bobby Trujillo, Jerry Walker, Gerald Sostrich, Ernie E. Delgado, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Juan Trevino, Kevin Yates, Adan Acosta, James W. Cotton, Clint Cook, Cory D. Luman, Vernard Miles, Francisco Juarez, Jody Morales, Michael Duran, Andrew Sisneros, Andre Boyer, Gilbert Garcia, Leland Furbush, Joe Franco, Plaintiffs, v. Eloy MONDRAGON, Secretary New Mexico Department of Corrections; Bruce King, Governor of the State of New Mexico; Tom Udall, Attorney General, New Mexico; Donald A. Dorsey, Warden, Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

April 29, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Kennedy, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.*

Nick D'Angelo, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Garnett R. Burks, Jr., Las Cruces, New Mexico (Melinda L. Wolinsky, Deputy General Counsel, for New Mexico Corrections Department, Santa Fe, New Mexico, with them on the briefs), for Defendants-Appellees.

Before EBEL and HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.


HOLLOWAY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs-appellants, who are convicted sex offenders and inmates in the Southern New Mexico Correctional Facility at Las Cruces, New Mexico, appeal the district court's dismissal of their civil rights claims brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and based on alleged Eighth Amendment, due process, and equal protection violations. We affirm.

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