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COOPER v. MORIN

49 N.Y.2d 69 (1979)

Regina Cooper et al., on Behalf of Themselves and All Others Similarly Situated, Appellants-Respondents, v. Lucien A. Morin, Individually and in His Official Capacity as County Manager of the County of Monroe, et al., Respondents-Appellants.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided December 19, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Leven and Ian C. De Waal for appellants-respondents.

John D. Doyle, County Attorney (David Van Varick and Rae A. Clark, Jr., of counsel), for respondents-appellants.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Shirley Adelson Siegel and John J. Warner, Jr., of counsel), amicus curiae.

William E. Hellerstein, John Boston and Clay Hiles for Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project, amicus curiae.

Judges JONES, WACHTLER and FUCHSBERG concur with Judge MEYER; Chief Judge COOKE concurs in result in a separate memorandum; Judge GABRIELLI dissents and votes to modify in a dissenting opinion in which Judge JASEN concurs.

MEYER, J.

This appeal requires that we pass upon the rights of persons incarcerated pending trial of criminal charges against them; specifically, whether a pretrial detainee has a right to contact visitation with her family; whether, if so, such a visit may be limited to 10 minutes; whether the penalties imposed for infraction of rules for behavior of jail inmates must be related to particular offenses. A subsidiary...

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