WASH v. JOHNSON

No. 02-61063.

343 F.3d 685 (2003)

Ezell WASH; et. al., Plaintiffs, Ezell Wash; Porter Shorter; Kenneth Dennis; Desmond Earl Phillips; Bobby Caldwell; Gary Moore; Jimmy Powell; Chris Boyd; Robert Price; Rudy Romero; Glendale Sones; David McGee; Richard Sims, Jr.; James Reed, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert JOHNSON, Commissioner; James Anderson; Walter Booker; W.L. Holman; Robert Armstrong; Gene Crocker; Earl Jackson; Jessie Streeter; Christopher Epps; Larry Keys; Pamely Lee; Charles Thomas; Glenn Adams; Willie Walker; Case Manager Jackson; Sam Webb; Jacqilyn Maxwell; Maud Irby; Joe Conners; Frank Grammar; Larry Hardy; John Doe(s), Liability Sureties/Bonding Companies of All Defendants, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

August 12, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plaintiffs-Appellants Ezell Wash, Porter Shorter, Kenneth Dennis, Desmond Earl Phillips, Bobby Caldwell, Jimmy Powell, Christopher Conway Boyd, Robert Price, Rudy Romero, Glendale Ray Sones, David McGee, Richard Sims and James Reed, Parchman, MS, and Garry Lee Moore, Meridian, MS, all appear pro se.

John Lewis Clay, Jackson, MS, Leonard Charlton Vincent, Miss. Dept. of Corrections, Parchman, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before SMITH, DeMOSS and STEWART, Circuit Judges.


BY THE COURT:

Twenty-four state prisoners filed a pro se civil rights action contesting the conditions of their confinement. The district court ultimately dismissed plaintiffs' complaint, and a notice of appeal was timely filed, purportedly on behalf of all plaintiffs, but signed only by plaintiff Desmond Phillips.

The clerk of this court advised Phillips that the appeal was proceeding as to Phillips only because...

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