CRAWLEY v. HAMILTON COUNTY COM'RS

No. 84-3121.

744 F.2d 28 (1984)

David CRAWLEY; Elwood H. Jones; Larry Smith; Frank Bracey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. HAMILTON COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; Sheriff Lincoln Stokes; Warden William Whitworth, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided September 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen Olden (argued), Michael O'Hara, John E. Schrider, Jr., Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, Marc D. Mezibov, Cincinnati, Ohio, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Roger E. Friedmann, Arthur M. Ney, Jr., Brian E. Hurley (argued), Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendants-appellees.

Before EDWARDS and MARTIN, Circuit Judges; and SILER, District Judge.


BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs, inmates at the Community Correctional Institution in Cincinnati, Ohio, appeal the district court's dismissal of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit challenging the conditions of their confinement. The court dismissed the case in deference to what it considered to be a parallel, state-court proceeding.

The inmates at CCI first filed suit against the operators of the jail challenging their conditions of confinement...

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