WEST v. SCHOFIELD

No. M2014-02478-SC-R10-CV

468 S.W.3d 482 (2015)

Stephen Michael WEST et al. v. Derrick D. SCHOFIELD et al.

Supreme Court of Tennessee, AT NASHVILLE.

Filed July 2, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert H. Slatery III , Attorney General & Reporter; Andrée Blumstein , Solicitor General; Jennifer L. Smith , Deputy Attorney General; Linda D. Kirklen and Scott Sutherland , Assistant Attorneys General (at trial), for the appellants, Derrick Schofield, Wayne Carpenter, Tony Mays, Jason Woodall, Tony Parker, and John Doe Physicians, Pharmacists, Medical Examiners, Medical Personnel, and Executioners.

Stephen M. Kissinger and Susanne Bales , Assistant Federal Community Defenders, Knoxville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Stephen Michael West, Nicholas Todd Sutton, and David Earl Miller.

C. Gene Shiles, Jr. , and William J. Rieder , Chattanooga, Tennessee, for the appellee, Billy Ray Irick.

Kelley J. Henry , Supervisory Assistant Federal Public Defender, and Michael J. Passino , Assistant Federal Public Defender, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellees, Abu-Ali Abdur'Rahman, Donald R. Johnson, Donald Wayne Strouth, Charles Walton Wright, and Edmund George Zagorski.

Kelly A. Gleasonand   Jonathan King , Assistant Post-Conviction Defenders, Nashville, Tennessee, for the appellee, Lee Hall, Jr.

Robert C. Goodrich, Jr. and J. Patrick Warfield , Nashville, Tennessee, for the amici curiae, Edward Michael Bearman, C. Dewey Branstetter, Jr., L. Webb Campbell, II, Donald Capparella, David M. Eldridge, Claiborne H. Ferguson, Jason Gichner, Robert C. Goodrich, Jr., Daniel A. Horwitz, William Howell, Stephen Ross Johnson, William Leader, Bradley A. MacLean, Cynthia W. MacLean, H. E. Miller, Jr., John G. Oliva, Edgar Rothschild, Gregory D. Smith, Christopher Slobogin, Matthew Sweeney, James G. Thomas, and J. Patrick Warfield.


OPINION

We granted this extraordinary appeal to determine whether, in this declaratory judgment action, the death-sentenced inmates' claims...

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