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INMATES OF ALLEGHENY CTY. JAIL v. PIERCE

No. 78-2621.

612 F.2d 754 (1979)

INMATES OF the ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, Thomas Price Bey, Arthur Goslee, Harry Smith, Robert Maloney, and Calvin Milligan on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Appellants, v. Robert PIERCE, Chairman, Allegheny County Board of Prison Inspectors and all other members of the Board; James Jennings, Warden of Allegheny County Jail; and James Flaherty, Robert Pierce and Thomas Foerster, Commissioners for Allegheny County; John P. Lynch, Controller for Allegheny County; Eugene Coon, Sheriff for Allegheny County; The Honorable Henry Ellenbogen, The Honorable John W. O'Brien, The Honorable Samuel Strauss, and The Honorable Patrick R. Tamila, Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County; Peter Flaherty, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided December 28, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jere Krakoff (argued), Mark B. Greenblatt, Jon Pushinsky, Neighborhood Legal Services Association, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants.

Alexander J. Jaffurs, County Sol., Dennis R. Biondo (argued), Asst. County Sol., Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellees.

Before ALDISERT, ROSENN and GARTH, Circuit Judges.

OPINION OF THE COURT

ROSENN, Circuit Judge.

We are faced on this appeal with a challenge to certain conditions of confinement for pretrial detainees incarcerated in the Allegheny County Jail. On June 2, 1976, inmates of the jail ("Inmates") filed a class action against the Allegheny County Board of Prison Inspectors ("Board") and other county officials under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 seeking a declaratory judgment that...

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