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ANDERSON v. GARNER

Civil Action No. 4:96-CV-0322-HLM.

22 F.Supp.2d 1379 (1997)

Rodney ANDERSON, Raymon Bennett, Johnny Cain, Earnest Daniel, Corey Doomes, Lawrence Epps, Tyler Johnson, Jerry Marks, Timothy Noland, Anthony Richards, Jeffery Ross, Jody Smith, Joe Thomas, and Marshall Tolbert, inmates of the Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC), on behalf of themselves individually and for a class of all GDC inmates who will be subjected to "shakedowns," Plaintiffs, v. Wayne GARNER, Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Corrections, in his individual and official capacities; A.G. Thomas, Director of Facilities, in his individual and official capacities; Lieutenant John Brady, Sergeants Calvin Davis and Joe Johnson, Correction Officers Dowdell, Frazier, Stevenson, and Robert Watson, in their individual capacities, Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Georgia, Rome Division.

September 11, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Brooks Bright, Robert Frederick Bensing, Katharine Aiken Huffman, Southern Center for Human Rights, Atlanta, GA, Joel Levi, L. Elizabeth Bowles, Prakash Rajamani Donna Patterson, Kitty Behan, Arnold & Porter, pro hac vice, for Plaintiffs.

John C. Jones, Stacey L. Ferris-Smith, Diane Festin LaRoss, David J. Manmurs, Office of State Attorney General, Atlanta, GA, J. Timothy Mast, Long Aldridge & Norman, Atlanta, GA, Bruce McCord Edenfield, Gray Hedrick & Edenfield, Atlanta, GA, George M. Weaver, Hugh William Rowling, Jr., Holberg Weaver & Kytle, Atlanta, GA, Timothy Hal Bendin, Phillip Edward Friduss, Hall Booth Smith & Slover, Atlanta, GA, Theodore Freeman, Dana Kristin Maine, Freeman Mathis & Gary, Atlanta, GA, Frank Phillips Harris, Harris Morgan & Parson, Marietta, GA, Judy Farrington Aust, Goodman McGuffey Aust & Lindsey, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants.

ORDER

HAROLD L. MURPHY, District Judge.

This is a civil rights action filed by 14 Georgia prison inmates who allege that State correctional officers used excessive force during "shakedowns" at the prisons, with the consent and encouragement of State prison officials. Plaintiffs seek compensatory and punitive damages, as well as injunctive relief on behalf of a class of similarly situated inmates, pursuant to 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983 (1994). The case...

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