Legal Opinion
James Roane v. Michele Leonhart
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 24, 2014No. 12-5020PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge GRIFFITH.
GRIFFITH, Circuit Judge:
Federal death row inmate Jeffrey Paul moved to intervene in this lawsuit, which challenges the government’s method of carrying out lethal injections and its failure to disclose its execution procedures. The district court denied his motion. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse.
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Three federal death row inmates filed this lawsuit in December 2005 against vari ous officials responsible for designing and implementing the federal lethal injection protocol. * Although their primary claim alleged that the three-drug…
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