BARRIENTOS v. CORECIVIC, INC.

No. 18-15081.

951 F.3d 1269 (2020)

Wilhen Hill BARRIENTOS, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Margarito Velazquez-Galicia, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Shoaib Ahmed, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CORECIVIC, INC., Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

February 28, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Meredith Blake Stewart , Bryan Lopez , Southern Poverty Law Center, New Orleans, LA, Priyanka Bhatt , Azadeh N. Shahshahani , Project South, Atlanta, GA, Warren Tavares Burns , Daniel H. Charest , Burns Charest, LLP, Dallas, TX, Rebecca Miriam Cassler , Laura G. Rivera Simonsen , Southern Poverty Law Center, Decatur, GA, Robert Andrew Free , Law Office of R. Andrew Free, Nashville, TN, Korey A. Nelson , Lydia A. Wright , Burns Charest, LLP, New Orleans, LA, Daniel Werner , Southern Poverty Law Center, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Daniel P. Struck , Nicholas D. Acedo , Struck Love Bojanowski & Acedo, PLC, Chandler, AZ, Stephen E. Curry , Curry Law Firm, Augusta, GA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Bradley Hinshelwood , U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Appellate Staff, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae United States of America.

Jon M. Greenbaum , Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

Alvin Francis Lindsay, III , Hogan Lovells US, LLP, Miami, FL, for Amici Curiae Human Trafficking Legal Center, Tahirih Justice Center, Coalition to Abolish Slavery & Trafficking, Americans for Immigrant Justice, Asista Immigration Assistance.

Before HULL and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and ROTHSTEIN, District Judge.


In this case, Appellees Wilhen Hill Barrientos, Margarito Velazquez-Galicia, and Shoaib Ahmed, current and former alien detainees, brought a class action lawsuit against Appellant CoreCivic, Inc., a private contractor, which owns and operates the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin...

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