In Re: Ohio Execution Protocol Litigation

Filing 1263

DECISION AND ORDER DENYING TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDERS. Signed by Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz on 9/28/2017. (kpf)

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF OHIO
EASTERN DIVISION AT COLUMBUS
In re: OHIO EXECUTION
PROTOCOL LITIGATION,

Case No. 2:11-cv-1016

Chief Judge Edmund A. Sargus, Jr.
Magistrate Judge Michael R. Merz
This Order relates to Plaintiffs
Campbell and Tibbetts

DECISION AND ORDER DENYING TEMPORARY RESTRAINING
ORDERS

This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 method-of-execution case is before the Court on Plaintiff
Raymond Tibbetts Second Motion) and Plaintiff Alva Campbell’s Amended Motion for a Stay of
Execution, a Temporary Restraining Order, and a Preliminary Injunction (ECF No. 1262).
For the reasons given for denying a temporary restraining order with respect to former
Plaintiff Gary Otte (In re: Ohio Execution Protocol Litig (Otte), 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 138456
(S.D. Ohio Aug. 29, 2017), copy at ECF No. 1178), the temporary restraining order portions of
the instant Motions are denied without prejudice to the other portions of those Motions.

September 28, 2017.
s/ Michael R. Merz
United States Magistrate Judge

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