JORDAN v. WOLKE

No. 78-1341.

593 F.2d 772 (1978)

Alvin JORDAN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael S. WOLKE, Individually and as Sheriff of Milwaukee County, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 22, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gerald G. Pagel, Milwaukee County Corp. Counsel, Milwaukee, Wis., for defendants-appellants.

George Raymond Edgar, Legal Action of Wisconsin, Inc., Milwaukee, Wis., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before TONE and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This is an appeal by the defendants in a class action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief on behalf of pretrial detainees in the Milwaukee County Jail. The complaint alleged that certain jail conditions violated the due process and equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. After reference to a master, the trial judge entered an order following in general the master's recommendations and granted a preliminary...

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