Barber v. State, Department of Corrections

OPINION

STOWERS, Chief Justice.

1. INTRODUCTION

Beginning in 2013 a number of pro se prisoners moved for the superior court to enforce the terms of the 1990 Final Settlement Agreement and Order 2 in the Cleary case, 3 a class action by inmates regarding prison conditions. In 2014 Superior Court Judge John Suddock dismissed the prisoners’ motions, concluding that the Final Settlement Agreement was unenforceable because it had been terminated in 2001 when Superi- or Court Judge Elaine M. Andrews found that the requirements for termination had been met. But Judge Andrews did not terminate the Final…