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SNELL v. SUFFOLK COUNTY

Nos. 558, 687, Dockets 85-7455, 85-7499.

782 F.2d 1094 (1986)

Clement A. SNELL, Willie Lawrence, Oscar Byrd, John Hammond, Raymond Ramos, James Henderson, and Victor Delgado, For Themselves and All Persons Similarly Situated, Toni L. Jackson, William M. Berry, Leonard A. Hopson, Ronald Williams, Walter L. Richardson, Vincent Richardson, James B. Richardson, Anna Lewis, Camellia Turpin, Darlene Pressley, Joseph E. Neal, Paulette Trent, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. SUFFOLK COUNTY, A Municipal Corporation Organized pursuant to the Laws of the State of New York, and John P. Finnerty, as Sheriff of Suffolk County, Defendants, John P. Finnerty, As Sheriff of Suffolk County, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided January 22, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Catterson, Jr., Sp. Counsel for Suffolk Co., Port Jefferson, N.Y. (Snitow & Pauley, William H. Pauley, III, Scott M. Yaffe, of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

William M. Brodsky, New York City (Baden Kramer Huffman & Brodsky, P.C., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before KAUFMAN, TIMBERS, and NEWMAN, Circuit Judges.

IRVING R. KAUFMAN, Circuit Judge:

Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 provides that an employee has a right to a working environment free of racial harassment. On this appeal, we are presented with the assertion of this right in an uncommon context. Appellees, sixteen black and Hispanic correction officers, seek to enlist their employer's aid in cleansing an atmosphere universally recognized as harsh and oft-times cruel — a prison facility. Acknowledging...

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