Richard Jordan v. Marshall Fisher

JENNIFER WALKER ELROD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Richard Jordan and Ricky Chase and Intervenor Thomas Loden are prisoners awaiting execution in the state of Mississippi. They sued under § 1983 in federal district court seeking an injunction preventing the state from conducting executions with compounded pentobarbital. The district court granted a broad preliminary injunction. Because Mississippi’s sovereign immunity prevents a federal court from enjoining state officials to follow state law, and because Plaintiffs 1 have not shown they are likely to succeed in establishing a violation of…