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WILLIAMS v. EDWARDS

No. 95-30835.

87 F.3d 126 (1996)

Hayes WILLIAMS, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Edwin W. EDWARDS, Governor, State of Louisiana and Richard L. Staider, Secretary, Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied July 24, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Keith Baker Nordyke, June E. Denlinger, Nordyke & Denlinger, Baton Rouge, LA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Richard A. Curry, Shannan Sweeney Rieger, McGlinchey, Stafford & Lang, Baton Rouge, LA, for defendants-appellants.

Before POLITZ, Chief Judge, and WIENER and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied July 24, 1996.

WIENER, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is the latest chapter in a saga involving Defendants-Appellants, the Governor of Louisiana and the Secretary for the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections (Department), and Plaintiffs-Appellees, four Louisiana prison inmates. This particular chapter begins with the Department's contending that a consent decree governing Louisiana prisons...

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