Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Conger
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided July 3, 1996No. 94-6808PublishedCited by 104 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal by a former circuit court judge in Aabama from the issuance of a permanent injunction against him, as well as his successors in office, permanently enjoining them from excluding members of the public from any divorce trial convened in the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Aabama, absent a prior judicial determination that their public interest in a particular trial is outweighed by a specifically identified compelling state interest. The district court also awarded the plaintiffs one hundred dollars in nominal damages against the state court judge in both his…
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