COOEY v. TAFT

No. 2:04-cv-1156.

430 F.Supp.2d 702 (2006)

Richard COOEY, and Jeffrey D. Hill, Plaintiffs, v. Robert TAFT, Governor, Reginald Wilkinson, Director, and James Haviland, Warden, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Ohio, Eastern Division.

April 28, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregory William Meyers, Kelly Leann Culshaw, David Bodiker, Timothy R. Payne, Ohio Public Defender's Office, Columbus, OH, Gary Wayne Crim, Dayton, OH, for Plaintiffs.

Michael L. Collyer, Assistant Attorney General, Kelley Ann Sweeney, Ohio Attorney General, Cleveland, OH, for Defendants.


ORDER GRANTING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION

FROST, District Judge.

Jeffrey Hill, a state prisoner sentenced to death by the State of Ohio, is a plaintiff in a civil rights action pending before this Court that challenges multiple facets of the lethal injection protocol used by the State of Ohio. This matter is before the Court on Plaintiff Hill's emergency motion for a preliminary injunction, i.e., a stay of execution. (Doc. # 37.) For the reasons that...

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