Legal Opinion
Nichols v. Hopper
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided April 23, 1999No. 97-6818PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
In this case, we consider whether the immediate termination provisions of the Prison Litigation Reform Act (“PLRA”), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 3626(b), violate the separation of powers doctrine as articulated in United States v. Klein, 80 U.S. (13 Wall.) 128, 20 L.Ed. 519 (1871).
I. BACKGROUND
On October 5, 1987, the district court entered a consent order, agreed upon by the parties, concerning the conditions of confinement at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women in Wetumpka, Alabama. The consent order remained in effect until the Attorney General of Alabama and the Alabama…
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