WILLIAMS v. BALLARD

WILLIE FRANK WILLIAMS, JR., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VERONICA BALLARD, Parole Board Director; VICTOR RODRIGUEZ, Parole Board Chairman; JOHN WHITMIRE, Senator, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Criminal Justice; JANE NELSON, Senator, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice; BILL RATLIFF, Senator, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice; FLORENCE SHAPIRO, Senator, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice; ROYCE WEST, Senate Committee on Criminal Justice; OWEIDA CARTER, Parole Field Tracking Officer; BILL W LINSON, Region Director; JAN LEWIS, Parole Officer; DALE HEISCH, Parole Field Tracking Officer; JEFF MCGUIRE, Parole Officer; CHARLES WARD, Parole Field Tracking Officer; JOHN & JANE DOES, Employees, Members, Supervisors for the Board of Pardon and Parole; JANE & JOHN DOES, Texas Legislature Senators; GERALD GARRETT, Individually and in his official capacity as Chairman of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles; THOMAS A DAVIS, JR, Individually and in his official capacity as Director, Texas Department of Public Safety; BRYAN COLLIER, Individually and in his official capacity as Director of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice—Parole Division; IOLA BROWN, Individually and in her official capacity as Parole Supervisor, Texas Department of Criminal Justice Parole Division, Defendants-Appellees.