Prison Cleaning Injunction Stayed; Brief Filed In Prison COVID-19 Response Suit

Mealey's (May 12, 2020, 1:44 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A trial court erred by granting injunctive relief to Texas prisoners who allege in a putative class complaint that the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s (TDCJ) response to the novel coronavirus pandemic was insufficient, the TDCJ and two officials allege in an appellant brief filed May 11 in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, just over two weeks after the Fifth Circuit stayed the injunction pending appeal (Laddy Curtis Valentine, et al. v. Bryan Collier, et al., No. 20-20207, 5th Cir.)....