Legal Opinion

Skinner v. Lampert

District Court, D. Wyoming

Decided August 7, 2006No. 2:02-cr-00033Published

1Opinion of the Court

Order Denying Defendants’ Motion to Terminate, Modifying Prospective Relief, and Granting in Part and Denying in Part Plaintiffs’ Six Contempt Motions

BRIMMER, District Judge.

The Wyoming State Penitentiary has operated under the supervision of this Court since October of 2003 because of unconstitutional conditions of confinement that failed to reasonably protect inmates from inmate-on-inmate violence. See Skinner v. Uphoff, 234 F.Supp.2d 1208 (D.Wyo.2002). The Defendants now seek to end this Court’s supervision, claiming there are no current and ongoing violations of any federal right. The…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  2. Hudson v. PalmerSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  3. Helling v. McKinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  4. Hutto v. FinneySupreme Court of the United States · 1979
  5. Miller v. FrenchSupreme Court of the United States · 2000

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