Legal Opinion
Shook v. El Paso County
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 18, 2004No. 03-1397PublishedCited by 201 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
This case involves the unsuccessful effort by four former state prisoners to certify a class action challenging their lack of access to mental health care while incarcerated in the El Paso County, Colorado Jail. The district court denied them class certification and dismissed the suit based on its conclusion that under the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act the relief the plaintiffs sought was “beyond the competence and the jurisdiction of [the] court.” Shook v. Bd. of County Comm’rs of County of El Paso, 216 F.R.D. 644, 648 (D.Colo.2003).
The plaintiffs now appeal,…
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