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MANIS v. CORRECTIONS CORP. OF AMERICA

No. 1-92-0111.

859 F.Supp. 302 (1994)

Clarence MANIS v. CORRECTIONS CORPORATION OF AMERICA, et al.

United States District Court, M.D. Tennessee, Columbia Division.

August 1, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Susan Laurie Kay, Nashville, TN, for plaintiff.

Kimberly Jennings Dean, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Claims Div., Nashville, TN, Stanley Tom Anderson, and Sandra I. Schefcik, Butler, Anderson & Rheney, Lexington, TN, for defendants Corrections Corp. of America, Warden Joe Driskell and South Cent. Correctional Center.

Kimberly Jennings Dean, Office of the Atty. Gen., Civ. Rights Claims Div., Nashville, TN and Michael M. Castellarin, Moody, Whitfield and Castellarin, Nashville, TN, for defendant Donald Fowler.

MEMORANDUM

HIGGINS, District Judge.

The question has arisen whether a private corporation and its employees operating a prison under a contract with the State of Tennessee are protected from suit by the qualified immunity of public officials. For the reasons set forth below, the Court concludes that they are not.1

I.

The facts of this case are set forth in detail in the Report and Recommendation (Docket...

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