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RUIZ v. JOHNSON

Nos. 98-20233, 98-20841.

178 F.3d 385 (1999)

David R. RUIZ; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, United States of America, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Gary JOHNSON, Director, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Institutional Division; Allen B. Polunsky; Carole S. Young; John R. Ward; John David Franz; Nancy Patton; Carol S. Vance; Patricia Day; Alfred C. Moran; Alfred M. Stringfellow, Defendants-Appellants. David R. Ruiz; et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. United States of America, Intervenor Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Gary Johnson, etc.; et al., Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 25, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Bennett Turner, Rogers, Joseph, O'Donnell & Quinn, San Francisco, CA, for Ruiz.

Marie K. McElderry, Mark L. Gross, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, DC, for United States.

Sharon Felfe, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.

Edmund D. Daniels, Baker & Botts, Houston, TX, for Culberson and Brown, Amicus Curiae.

Gregory Scott Coleman, Austin, TX, for Defendants-Appellants, and John Culberson and J.E. "Buster" Brown, Amicus Curiae.

Daniel J. Popeo, Washington, DC, for Washington Legal Foundation, Spencer Abraham, Jeff Sessions, Strom Thurmond, U.S. Senators, Tom Delay, U.S. Representative, Orrin G. Hatch, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, U.S. Senators, Bill Archer and Charles T. Cannady, U.S. Representativies, Amicus Curiae.

Before JOLLY, WIENER and PARKER, Circuit Judges.

E. Grady Jolly, Circuit Judge:

This appeal arises from the efforts of Texas officials to terminate the federal consent orders that have in substantial part governed Texas prisons for almost twenty-five years. Today, we have before us two separate issues: first, mootness— whether an appeal of a district court order holding the automatic stay provision of the Prison Litigation Reform Act ("PLRA"), 18 U.S.C. § 3626(e)(2), unconstitutional has been rendered...

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