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Parties Involved:
Pelicia Hall, Commissioner, Mississippi Department of Corrections
Appellant
Mississippi Department of Corrections
Appellant
Stephen Daniel Montalto
Appellee

Document Text:

IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE FIFTH CIRCUIT

No. 18-60274

STEPHEN DANIEL MONTALTO, 

 Petitioner - Appellee

v.

MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; PELICIA HALL, 

COMMISSIONER, MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, 

 Respondents - Appellants

Appeal from the United States District Court 

for the Southern District of Mississippi

Before DAVIS, HIGGINSON, and WILLETT, Circuit Judges.

STEPHEN A. HIGGINSON, Circuit Judge:

This panel previously remanded this case to the district court with 

instructions that “it provide a supplemental order setting forth actual findings, 

if any,” as to professional misconduct by the attorneys in this case. Montalto 

v. Miss. Dep’t of Corr., 938 F.3d 649, 658 (5th Cir. 2019). On December 9, 2019, 

the district court granted the parties’ joint motion to approve their proposed 

“Agreed Order.” In the “Agreed Order,” the district court clarifies that its

“previous order contained no formal findings of professional misconduct and 

imposed no sanctions on the attorneys or parties involved in this case.” 

United States Court of Appeals

Fifth Circuit

FILED

January 21, 2020

Lyle W. Cayce

Clerk

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Because the district court made no “actual finding[s] of professional 

misconduct,” United States v. El-Mezain, 664 F.3d 467, 579 (5th Cir. 2011), the 

appeal is DISMISSED. 

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