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AUSTIN v. HOPPER

No. CIV.A. 95-T-637-N.

28 F.Supp.2d 1231 (1998)

Michael A. AUSTIN, Richard Elliot, Ogie Lee Hayes, Charles Orlander Guess, Warren Leatherwood, and Kervin Goodwin, Plaintiffs, v. Joe HOPPER, Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Defendant.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.

December 7, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Richard Cohen, Morris S. Dees, Jr., Rhonda Brownstein, Marcia Bull Stadeker, Ellen M. Bowden, Southern Poverty Law Center, Montgomery, AL, Roy S. Haber, Roy S. Haber, P.C., Eugene, OR, for Michael A. Austin, Richard Elliot, Ogie Lee Hayes, Charles Orlander Guess, Warren Leatherwood, Kervin Goodwin, plaintiffs.

Robin Garrett Laurie, Balch & Bingham, Montgomery, AL, Edward S. Allen, N. DeWayne Pope, Balch & Bingham, Birmingham, AL, Andrew W. Redd, Albert S. Butler, Alabama Department of Corrections, William P. Gray, Jr., Gray & Jauregui, Montgomery, AL, for Fob James, Governor of the State of Alabama, defendant.

William F. Addison, Andrew W. Redd, Albert S. Butler, Kim T. Thomas, Alabama Dept. of Corrections, Legal Div., Montgomery, AL, for Joe Hopper, defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

In this class-action lawsuit, the plaintiffs, who are inmates in the Alabama prison system, challenged several of the system's policies and practices, including the following: the failure to provide adequate toilet facilities to inmates on work squads. The plaintiffs claimed that this policy and practice violated the first, fifth, eighth and fourteenth amendments to the United States Constitution...

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