Bell v. Kentucky Parole Board

This appeal once more is before the court, an earlier order of the court affirming the judgment of the district court having been vacated by the Supreme Court of the United States which, noting that petitioner Bell had died and that petitioner Scott had been granted parole by the Kentucky Parole Board, remanded the case to this court for consideration of the question of mootness, Ewell Scott et al., petitioner v. Kentucky Parole Board et al, decided November 2, 1976, 429 U.S. 60, 97 S.Ct. 342, 50 L.Ed.2d 218 (1976).

Following submission of a brief in response on the question of mootness, the…