Ford v. Allen

This is an appeal by the United States Marshal for the Northern District of Georgia, as intervenor-appellant, from an order of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The order requires the U.S. Marshal to bear the entire habeas corpus ad testificandum responsibility for producing a state prison inmate in federal district court to testify at the trial of his pro se 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against county employees.

The U.S. Marshal argues that under Ballard v. Spradley, 557 F.2d 476 (5th Cir. 1977), the responsibility of compliance with a writ of habeas corpus ad…