United States Eleventh Circuit

Under the Prison Litigation Reform Act two-year termination provision, 18 USC 3626, a court must conduct an evidentiary hearing before lifting a consent decree, even if prisoners had not alleged any violations of the decrees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/24/2000
• Published 10/25/2000

Judges

• CARNES, Circuit Judge:, Before CARNES and BARKETT, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Jones,State Law Dept., Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., Robert W. Cullen, Cullen & Miller, Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.