Legal Opinion
Alan J. Bannister v. Mel Carnahan
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 2, 1997No. 95-3843, 95-3845PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, who are Missouri prisoners confined under sentence of death, filed this class action in August 1985, challenging as unconstitutional the conditions of their confinement in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. The United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri 2 certified a class of present and future Missouri death-row inmates. The parties soon negotiated a detailed consent decree regulating a number of aspects of day-to-day life on death row, and the court approved the decree, following several addenda, in January 1987.…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Lewis v. CaseySupreme Court of the United States · 1996
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. DowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
- McDonald v. ArmontroutCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1988
- Plyler v. MooreCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1996
- David Wayne Givens v. Jimmy Jones, Terry Morris, Zak A. Ajans, M.D., Frederick Stephenson, Jr., Georgia Slater, and Denny VasquezCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1990
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