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BATTLE v. ANDERSON

Civ. A. No. 72-95.

447 F.Supp. 516 (1977)

Bobby BATTLE et al., a class action, Plaintiffs, United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor, v. Park ANDERSON, his successor Richard Crisp, Warden, Oklahoma State Penitentiary, McAlester, Oklahoma, and his successor, J. M. Sunderland, Warden, Oklahoma State Reformatory, Granite, Oklahoma, and his successor, Department of Corrections, F. Warren Benton, Director, his successor, and the current State Board of Corrections, Frank E. Carey, Jr., President, Leroy W. Kirk, Patricia Montgomery, Gary M. Cook, Chester T. Curtin, Seth Millington, William Thompson, as members, and their successors, Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. Oklahoma.

June 14, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis Bullock, Stillwater, Okl., Mary E. Bane, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Gary Neal, Tulsa, Okl., for plaintiffs.

Drew S. Days, III, Gen. Counsel, Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C. and Charles Ory, and Paul Lawrence, Attys., Civ. Rights Div., U. S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-intervenor.

Paul Crowe, John Fischer, Harold McMillan and Amalija Hodgins, Asst. Attys. Gen., Oklahoma City, Okl., for the State of Oklahoma, for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

BOHANON, District Judge.

Plaintiff's Motion for Emergency Supplemental Relief as to Crowding came on for hearing after due notice May 23, 1977, plaintiff appearing by its attorneys Louis Bullock, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and Gary Neal, Tulsa, Oklahoma; the United States of America appearing by Drew S. Days, III, Charles Ory and Paul Lawrence, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; defendants appearing by Paul Crowe, John Fischer...

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