David R. Ruiz, United States of America, Intervenor-Appellee v. W. J. Estelle, Jr.

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• concluding that a federal court could require a state prison system to record all disciplinary hearings, preserve those recordings, and make them available to inmates
• explaining that a court has “inherent equitable power to appoint a person, whatever be his title, to assist it in administering a remedy.”
• affirming in part a decree that ordered reforms to conditions of confinement in Texas prison system
• modifying an order permitting the special master to submit reports based on his own observations and investigations without a formal hearing, to provide that such reports would not be entitled to a presumption of correctness
• “[T]he remedy should begin with what is absolutely necessary. If those measures later prove ineffective, more stringent ones should be considered”
• this portion of opinion vacated because parties entered into settlement before original opinion issued without disclosing to court

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