Eugene Stewart v. William Winter, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Governor of the State of Mississippi

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit · Decided 1982-03-05

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SAM D. JOHNSON, Circuit Judge, dissenting: Believing that the plurality has misapprehended the essence of the plaintiffs’ allegations, this dissent is respectfully submitted. The linchpin of the inmate plaintiffs’ thesis that the conditions of confinement in Mississippi’s eighty-two county jails can be addressed in a single action is their content…

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