Legal Opinion
Costello v. Wainwright
District Court, M.D. Florida
Decided May 22, 1975No. 72-109-Civ-J-S, 72-94-Civ-J-SPublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND ' PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION AND OPINION
CHARLES R. SCOTT, District Judge.
This cause came before the Court with respect to the plaintiffs’ renewal of application for injunction to close prisons to additional entrants, filed herein April 21, 1975. The plaintiffs seek to have this Court close Florida’s prison system to additional entrants and, in addition, require that the current inmate population be reduced to acceptable levels consistent with constitutional standards. For the reasons set forth below, the Court will require the defendants to lower the inmate population of the Division of…
2Cases cited29 opinions
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Trop v. DullesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958
- Taylor v. TaintorSupreme Court of the United States · 1873
- Lee v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Nazareth Gates, and United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenor-Appellee v. John Collier, Superintendent, Mississippi State PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
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3Cited by29 opinions
- Leonard Campbell v. Anderson McGruder Superintendent, Detention Services, (Two Cases)Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1978
- Chapman v. RhodesDistrict Court, S.D. Ohio · 1977
- Billy Hite, and Bobby Sessions, Thomas E. Jones v. William D. Leeke, Commissioner, J. L. Harvey, Warden of Kirkland Correctional InstitutionCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1977
- Crain v. BordenkircherWest Virginia Supreme Court · 1986
- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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