Mary GLOVER, Lynda Gates; Jimmie Ann Brown; Manette Gant; Jacalyn M. Settles; and several Jane Does, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees,
v.
Perry JOHNSON, Director, Michigan Department of Corrections; Florence R. Crane; G. Robert Cotton; Thomas K. Eardley, Jr.; B. James George, Jr.; Duane L. Waters; The Michigan Corrections Commission; William Kime, Director, Bureau of Programs; Robert Brown, Jr., Director, Bureau of Correctional Facilities; Frank Beetham, Director, Bureau of Prison Industries; Richard Nelson, Director, Bureau of Filed Services; Gloria Richardson, Superintendent, Huron Valley Women's Facility; Dorothy Costen, Director of Treatment, Huron Valley Women's Facility; Clyde Graven, Sheriff, Kalamazoo County, individually, and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellants.
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Argued November 14, 1995.
Decided February 14, 1996.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing Denied March 27, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Michael Barnhart, Barnhart & Mirer, Detroit, MI, Barbara L. Kessler, Ann Arbor, Deborah A. LaBelle (argued and briefed), Law Offices of Deborah LaBelle, Detroit, MI, for Mary Glover.
Michael Barnhart, Barnhart & Mirer, Detroit, MI, Deborah A. LaBelle (argued and briefed), Law Offices of Deborah LaBelle, Detroit, MI, for Lynda Gates and Jimmie Ann Brown.
Michael Barnhart, Barnhart & Mirer, Detroit, MI, for Manette Gant, Jacalyn M. Settles and Jane Does.
Nechama Masliansky (briefed), National Center on Women and Family Law, Detroit, MI, Anne L. Argiroff (briefed), Michigan Legal Services, Detroit, MI, for National Center on Women and Family Law.
Julie Kunce Field, Lansing, MI, Anne L. Argiroff, Michigan Legal Services, Detroit, MI, for Woman Lawyers Association of Michigan.
David G. Edick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Div., Lansing, MI, Kim G. Harris (argued and briefed), Michigan Dept. of Attorney General, Corrections Div., Lansing, MI, for Clyde Graven and G. Robert Cotton.
David G. Edick, Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Div., Lansing, MI, for all other Defendants-Appellants.
Before: WELLFORD, NELSON, and SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.
Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc Denied March 27, 1996.
WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.
Nearly twenty years ago, a group of female prisoners in the Michigan state system filed this class action claiming that they were denied access to the courts and constitutional equal protection rights. Those plaintiffs "demanded that defendants and others, members of the Michigan Corrections Commission (`Commission'), provide them with educational and vocational...
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