IN RE OHIO EXECUTION PROTOCOL

No. 17-3076.

860 F.3d 881 (2017)

IN RE: OHIO EXECUTION PROTOCOL. Angelo Fears, et al., Plaintiffs, Gary Otte; Ronald Phillips; Raymond Tibbetts, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Donald Morgan, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 28, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

REARGUED EN BANC: Eric E. Murphy , OFFICE OF THE OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. Mark E. Haddad , SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, Los Angeles, California, for Appellees. ON SUPPLEMENTAL BRIEF: Eric E. Murphy , Peter T. Reed , Hannah C. Wilson , Thomas E. Madden , Jocelyn K. Lowe , Charles L. Wille , Katherine E. Mullin , OFFICE OF THE OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellants. Mark E. Haddad , Joshua E. Anderson , Alycia A. Degen , Katherine A. Roberts , Collin P. Wedel , Adam P. Micale , SIDLEY AUSTIN LLP, Los Angeles, California, Allen L. Bohnert , Erin G. Barnhart , Adam M. Rusnak , Nadia Wood , OFFICE OF THE FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO, Columbus, Ohio, James A. King , PORTER, WRIGHT, MORRIS & ARTHUR LLP, Columbus, Ohio, Vicki Werneke , FEDERAL PUBLIC DEFENDER, Cleveland, Ohio, Timothy F. Sweeney , LAW OFFICE OF TIMOTHY FARRELL SWEENEY, Cleveland, Ohio, Lisa M. Lagos , OFFICE OF THE OHIO PUBLIC DEFENDER, Columbus, Ohio, for Appellees.

KETHLEDGE, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which BATCHELDER, GIBBONS, ROGERS, SUTTON, McKEAGUE, GRIFFIN, and THAPAR, JJ., joined, and WHITE, J., joined in the analysis of judicial estoppel. MOORE, J. (pp. 892-909), delivered a separate dissenting opinion in which COLE, C.J. and CLAY, STRANCH, and DONALD, JJ., joined, and WHITE, J., joined in all except part II.C. regarding judicial estoppel. STRANCH, J. (pp. 909-10), delivered a separate concurrence to Judge Moore's dissent.


OPINION

Roughly two decades have passed since the plaintiffs in this case murdered their victims. Ronald Phillips raped a three-year-old girl and beat her so badly that her internal organs ruptured. For two days she suffered intense abdominal pain and vomiting, until her heart collapsed. See State v. Phillips...

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