Legal Opinion
Ball v. LeBlanc
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 31, 2018No. 17-30052PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:
Elzie Ball, Nathaniel Code, and James Magee are death row inmates in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (“LSP”) and are housed in cells without air conditioning. The three sued in 2013, claiming a violation of the Eighth Amendment. Their case comes to us for the second time, after a different panel found that an Eighth Amendment violation had occurred and that injunctive relief was appropriate but that the district court had exceeded the bounds of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”) and Gates v. Cook, 376 F.3d 323, 339-40 (5th Cir. 2004), by mandating…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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