James W. Swan v. Walter S. Ray

James T. Swan appeals the district court’s order denying his motion for join-der to an action filed by another inmate, C.T. Akins. In the lawsuit brought by Akins which Swan had unsuccessfully attempted to join, Akins sought to enforce our earlier decision in Akins v. Snow, 922 F.2d 1558 (11th Cir.1991), where we held that the 1985 amendment to the rules promulgated by the Georgia’s Board of Pardons which increased the interval between proceedings to reconsider for parole those inmates serving life sentences after their initial denial of parole was a violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause of…