Legal Opinion
Morales Feliciano,et v. John A. Rullan
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 6, 2004No. 04-1300PublishedCited by 68 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
Like the legendary Phoenix, this class action litigation involving prison conditions in Puerto Rico is seemingly incapable of eternal rest. The iteration now before us focuses on prospective injunctive relief ordered by the district court in 1998 (the centerpiece of which is the proposed privatization of medical and mental health care throughout the correctional system). Despite his predecessor’s enthusiastic assent to that arrangement, the Commonwealth’s Secretary of Health (the Secretary), acting in his official capacity, sought five years later to vacate or terminate…
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