072102P.pdf   11/21/2008  Howard Hines  v.  Wendell Anderson
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2102
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Beam and Bye, Circuit Judges]
   Prisoner case - prisoner civil rights. Consent decree governing prison
   medical care was not a final judgment and did not create a property right
   for inmates which would entitle them under the due process clause to
   further discovery or a pretermination hearing in proceedings to terminate
   the decree; PLRA does not require a pretermination investigation and
   evidentiary hearing; record supported the court's decision to terminate the
   decree because the evidence did not support a finding that there was
   current and ongoing deliberate disregard of the inmates' serious medical
   needs, and, in the absence of evidence supporting a constitutional
   violation, the court had no basis to make the findings the PLRA requires
   as a condition precedent to the maintenance of the decree; district court's
   further finding that the decree was not narrowly tailored or the least
   intrusive means needed to protect the inmates' Eighth Amendment rights
   was not erroneous.