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INMATES OF SUFFOLK CTY. JAIL v. KEARNEY

Nos. 77-1361-77-1363.

573 F.2d 98 (1978)

INMATES OF the SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellants, v. Dennis J. KEARNEY et al., Defendants, Appellees. INMATES OF the SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Dennis J. KEARNEY et al., Defendants, Appellees, Boston City Councillors, Defendant, Appellant. INMATES OF the SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Dennis J. KEARNEY et al., Defendants, Appellees, Appeal of MAYOR OF the CITY OF BOSTON.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

March 17, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Max D. Stern, Boston, Mass., with whom Anne B. Goldstein, Stern & Shapiro, and Stanley A. Bass, New York City, were on brief, for Inmates of Suffolk County Jail.

Charles F. Choate, Boston, Mass., with whom Eric W. Wodlinger and Choate, Hall & Stewart, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Boston City Councillors.

Richard W. Hynes, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Boston, Mass., for City of Boston.

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

PER CURIAM.

Plaintiffs in this class action are almost wholly pretrial detainees incarcerated in the Suffolk County Jail in Boston (hereafter Charles St. Jail) who claim that their constitutional rights are violated by the conditions of confinement imposed on them. The district court in an opinion issued June 20, 1973 found that plaintiffs' claims were fully justified. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Eisenstadt, 360 F.Supp. 676

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