Texas Agency, Officials Argue Against Injunction In Inmates’ COVID-19 Response Suit

Mealey's (November 17, 2020, 10:04 AM EST) -- NEW ORLEANS — A trial court improperly entered a permanent injunction in a class complaint by inmates housed in a Texas prison primarily for elderly and those with health issues who allege that insufficient actions were taken to protect them from the novel coronavirus as it has already been shown that “extensive and evolving measures” have been implemented that “show the opposite of deliberate indifference,” the Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ), its executive director and the warden argue in an appellant brief filed Nov. 13 in the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (Laddy Curtis Valentine, et al. v. Bryan Collier, et al., No. 20-20525, 5th Cir.)....