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INMATES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL v. EISENSTADT

No. 75-1116.

518 F.2d 1241 (1975)

INMATES OF the SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Thomas S. EISENSTADT et al., Defendants, Appellees, Kevin H. White et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

July 17, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kevin F. Moloney, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Boston, Mass., with whom Kenneth Mickiewicz, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for Kevin H. White and the nine Boston City Councillors, appellants.

Max D. Stern, Boston, Mass., with whom Burnham, Stern & Shapiro, Boston, Mass., Stanley A. Bass and Jack Greenberg, New York City, were on brief, for the Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail and others, appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, McENTEE and CAMPBELL, Circuit Judges.

McENTEE, Circuit Judge.

On June 20, 1973, the Massachusetts District Court ruled that conditions at the Suffolk County Jail, also known as the Charles Street Jail, violated the prisoners' civil rights. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Eisenstadt, 360 F.Supp. 676 (D.Mass.1973). As interim relief the court ordered that no cell contain more than one inmate awaiting trial...

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