Thomas Porter v. Harold Clarke

U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit · Decided 2019-05-03

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NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, dissenting: In this case, Virginia death-row inmates are challenging conditions of confinement that have not existed for over three years - raising a concern that this case could now be only advisory. Nonetheless, the district court sustained their challenge and ruled in February 2018 that pre-2015 death-row conditions violated the Eighth Amendment. Further, it entered an injunction prohibiting a r…

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