LAMAR v. COFFIELD

No. Civil Action H-72-1393.

951 F.Supp. 629 (1996)

Allen L. LAMAR, et al., Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff, v. H.H. COFFIELD, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Texas.

January 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald M. Birnberg, Houston, TX, for Allen L. Lamar.

Robert C. Bowman, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for U.S.

Sharon Felfe, Office of Attorney General, Austin, TX, for Defendants.


OPINION ON POST-JUDGMENT INTERVENTIONS

HUGHES, District Judge.

In the early 1970s, a group of inmates in the Texas prison system sued the state for violations of their rights to be free from the arbitrary infliction of racially segregated facilities. This suit was supplemental to other suits about the way the prison was being run. The subjects of those suits ranged from unnecessary intrusion into inmate mail to staff-sanctioned inmate violence as a management...

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