GLOVER v. JOHNSON

Nos. 95-1521, 96-1931.

198 F.3d 557 (1999)

Mary GLOVER; Lynda Gates; Jimmie Ann Brown; Manetta 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 Commissions; 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 Field Services; Gloria Richardson, Superintendent, Huron Valley Women's Facility; Dorothy Costen, Director of Treatment, Huron Valley Women's Facility; and Clyde Graven, Sheriff, Kalamazoo County; individually and in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: December 14, 1999.

Rehearing Denied February 17, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. LaBelle (argued and briefed), Law Offices of Deborah LaBelle, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Michael Barnhart, Detroit, Michigan, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Leo H. Friedman (argued and briefed), Kim G. Harris, Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Division, Lansing, Michigan, for Defendants-Appellants in No. 95-1521.

Lisa C. Ward, Assistant Attorney General (argued), Susan Przekop-Shaw, Leo H. Friedman (argued and briefed), Office of the Attorney General, Corrections Division, Lansing, Michigan, for Defendant-Appellant in No. 96-1931.

Before: WELLFORD, RYAN, and DAUGHTREY, Circuit Judges.


RYAN, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which DAUGHTREY, J., joined. WELLFORD, J. (pp. 566-67), delivered a separate concurring opinion.

OPINION

RYAN, Circuit Judge.

After over 20 years of litigation, the defendants in this prisoners' rights case sought to terminate federal court jurisdiction over Michigan's efforts to achieve parity between male and female inmates in educational, vocational, apprenticeship, and work-pass opportunities,...

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