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MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ v. JIMENEZ

No. 76-1166.

551 F.2d 877 (1977)

Roberto MARTINEZ RODRIGUEZ et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Irving JIMENEZ et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 23, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Candita R. Orlandi, Asst. Sol. Gen., Dept. of Justice, San Juan, P. R., with whom Roberto Armstrong, Jr., Acting Sol. Gen., San Juan, P. R., was on brief, for appellants.

Rafael Perez-Bachs, with whom Stanley L. Feldstein, Roberto Buso Aboy, San Juan, P. R., and Francisco Lopez Romo, Santurce, P. R., were on brief, for appellees.

Before COFFIN, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge, and VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge.

VAN OOSTERHOUT, Senior Circuit Judge.

This is a class action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3) on behalf of inmates of the San Juan District Jail, a correctional institution of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico commonly known as "La Princesa." The district court, in an opinion reported at 409 F.Supp. 582 (D.P.R.1976), concluded in numerous respects that conditions...

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