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JORDAN v. WOLKE

No. 78-2648.

615 F.2d 749 (1980)

Alvin JORDAN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Michael S. WOLKE, etc., et al., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided January 8, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

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

Before SWYGERT, Circuit Judge, MOORE, Senior Circuit Judge, and TONE, Circuit Judge.

TONE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an injunction prohibiting overcrowding of pretrial detainees at the Milwaukee County Jail and requiring that they be allowed contact visitation with family members. After the case had been briefed and orally argued, we postponed our ruling to await the decision of the Supreme Court in Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520, 99 S.Ct. 1861, 60 L.Ed.2d 447 (1979). Following that decision the parties...

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