Legal Opinion

Depriest ex rel. C.B. v. Fisher

Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Decided September 27, 2016No. 15-60488PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM: *

Prisoners at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility filed this lawsuit in November 2010, challenging what they referred to as the “barbaric, unconstitutional condi*210tions” of confinement and alleging that Walnut Grove was violating their Eighth Amendment rights. In March 2012, the district court entered a consent decree, approving and adopting substantive remedies to which the parties had agreed. In 2015, Walnut Grove filed a motion to terminate the decree in its entirety, pursuant to the Prison Litigation Reform Act, claiming that prospective relief was no longer necessary. In…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Murphy v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
  2. U.S. Bancorp Mortgage Co. v. Bonner Mall PartnershipSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
  3. Deakins v. MonaghanSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
  4. Oliver v. ScottCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 2002
  5. Doe v. MarshallCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1980

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3Cited by2 opinions

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