Legal Opinion
Arthur D. Rutherford v. James v. Crosby, Jr.
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided January 30, 2006No. 06-10783PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Per curiam
This is the appeal of Arthur Dennis Rutherford, a Florida death row inmate, from the judgment of the district court dismissing his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging the details of that state’s lethal injection procedures. (A copy of the district court’s order is attached as an appendix to this opinion.) The district court stated two independently adequate grounds for dismissal.
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The first ground on which the district court dismissed Rutherford’s § 1983 complaint is that under our prior precedent a claim attacking the general procedures or protocols a state uses to carry out executions by…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Nelson v. CampbellSupreme Court of the United States · 2004
- Cheryl Cohen, on Behalf of Herself and Others Similarly Situated v. Office Depot, Inc., a Florida CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2000
- Cottrell v. CaldwellCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1996
- Arthur D. Rutherford v. James CrosbyCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2004
- Gomez v. United States District Court for the Northern District of CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
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3Cited by19 opinions
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