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AHRENS v. THOMAS

Nos. 77-1539 and 77-1541.

570 F.2d 286 (1978)

Fred AHRENS, Individually and on behalf of all other pretrial detainees in the Platte County Jail similarly situated, Appellees, v. Sheriff Thomas J. THOMAS, Henry Miller, Lloyd Allen, and Charles Cox, Appellants. Fred AHRENS, Individually and on behalf of all other pretrial detainees in the Platte County Jail similarly situated, Cross-appellants, v. Sheriff Thomas J. THOMAS, Henry Miller, Lloyd Allen, and Charles Cox, Cross-appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided February 17, 1978.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied March 15, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Tharp, Asst. Prosecuting Atty., Platte City, Mo. (argued) and Owens Lee Hull, Jr., Pros. Atty., Platte City, Mo., on brief, for Sheriff Thomas, et al.

Ronald Lee Roseman (argued), William J. Dittmeier, Legal & Defender Society of Greater Kansas City, Mo., and Andrew Steinberg, Legal Aid & Defender Society of Greater Kansas City (on brief), Kansas City, Mo., for Ahrens et al.

Before ROSS, STEPHENSON and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied March 15, 1978.

STEPHENSON, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Fred Ahrens, a pretrial detainee in the Platte County, Missouri, jail from August 11, 1973, to September 30, 1974, brought this section 1983 action below, challenging the conditions of confinement under which he was detained. The district court,1 on August 18, 1975, certified the cause as a class action under Fed.R.Civ.P. 23(b)(2) and defined...

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