ALVAREZ v. WILEY

Docket No. 3063.

71 Cal.App.3d 599 (1977)

139 Cal. Rptr. 550

ARTURO ALVAREZ, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. ROBERT WILEY, as Sheriff, etc., et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

July 11, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Neil J. Roberts, William C. McNeill III, Albert H. Meyerhoff, Richard M. Pearl, Robert K. Miller, Kathy Popoff and Nancy E. Sams for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Calvin E. Baldwin, County Counsel, and Clark F. Ide, Deputy County Counsel, for Defendants and Respondents.


OPINION

FRANSON, J.

Appellant has purported to allege a class action for equitable relief on behalf of heroin addicts "who are now or will in the future be incarcerated in the Tulare County Jail" and to declare and enjoin as unconstitutional the present practices of respondents in failing to provide adequate medical treatment for admittees to the jail, primarily "pre-trial detainees." Appellant alleges that he is the natural father...

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