Hines v. Anderson

WOLLMAN, Circuit Judge.

Howard Hines and other similarly situated inmates (Inmates) at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Oak Park Heights in Stillwater, Minnesota (Oak Park Heights Facility), appeal from the district court’s 1 order terminating the Hines Con sent Decree (decree) that regulated prison medical care. We affirm.

I

In 1973, inmates at the Minnesota Correctional Facility at Stillwater filed a class action suit against Minnesota state actors and prison officials pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that the medical care provided at the prison violated the Eighth and Fourteenth…