Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Alabama Department of Corrections
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided January 14, 2000No. Civ.A. 97-T-1746-NPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.
The plaintiffs, Paul D. Edwards, Debra Kay Echols, and Denise Mayfield, filed this lawsuit on December 19, 1997, on behalf of themselves and a class of all current and future HIV-positive inmates in Alabama’s state-run prisons, to challenge the conditions of their confinement. They have named as defendants the Alabama Department of Corrections (DOC), its former commissioners Ron Jones and Joe S. Hopper, its current commissioner Michael Haley, and Correctional Medical Services, Inc. (CMS). They base their lawsuit on the eighth amendment to the United…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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- Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
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- Scheuer v. RhodesSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
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3Cited by18 opinions
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