Legal Opinion
Collins v. Thompson
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided October 25, 1993No. 93-35245PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WRIGHT, Circuit Judge:
This appeal involves a consent decree between Washington state and inmates at the Washington State Reformatory which required the state to reduce inmate population. Because the state has reduced inmate population and because there are no ongoing constitutional violations at the reformatory, we affirm the district court’s order vacating the decree.
Inmates at the reformatory filed a complaint against the state in February 1978. It alleged violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983 because of the living conditions at the institution. The parties entered into a consent decree in…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- California v. LaRueSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Berg v. HudesmanWashington Supreme Court · 1990
- Joseph Toussaint v. Daniel McCarthy Joseph Toussaint v. James Rowland, Director, California Department of Corrections Daniel Vasquez Robert BorgCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1991
- Bishop Collins v. Gerald ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1982
3Cited by26 opinions
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- Collins v. ThompsonCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1993
- Taylor v. State of Ariz.District Court, D. Arizona · 1997
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