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525 F.2d 965

Docket No. 75-2397.

Gates v. Collier

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

Decided Jan. 8, 1976.

Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1976-01-08

Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 1987

11 federal appellate · 2 district ·

3 counsel of record

Relies on Procunier v. Martinez · 390 F. Supp. 482 - Gates v. Collier

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1976-01-08

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¶1Roy S. Haber, Boulder, Colo., Herman Wilson, David Lipman, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants.

¶2Roger Googe, James M. Ward, Asst. Attys. Gen., A. F. Summer, Atty. Gen., Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellees.

¶3Shawn Moore, Paul S. Lawrence, Dept, of Justice, Civil Rights Div., Washington, D. C., for the United States.

¶4Before COLEMAN, CLARK and IN-GRAHAM, Circuit Judges.

¶5PER CURIAM:

¶6This appeal is taken from the district court’s refusal to modify its prior injunctive order in response to allegations of racial discrimination toward inmates in the employment and training of personnel at the Mississippi State Penitentiary; and from the modification of the prisoner mail regulation contained in the prior order which plaintiffs asserted was modified in a manner which violates the ruling of Procunier v. Martinez, 416 U.S. 396, 94 S.Ct. 1800, 40 L.Ed.2d 224 (1974). The district court rendered a full opinion explicating its reasoning, Gates v. Collier, 390 F.Supp. 482 (N.D., Miss., 1975).

¶7*966We find no abuse of the broad discretion vested in the trial court to consider revision of an ongoing injunctive decree. On the reported opinion of the district court, supra, its judgment is

¶8Affirmed.

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