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INMATES OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL v. WECHT

Nos. 84-3024, 84-3191.

754 F.2d 120 (1985)

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 v. Cyril H. WECHT, President of the Allegheny County Board of Prison Inspectors and the other members of the Board; Thomas Foerster and William Hunt, Commissioners for Allegheny County, Frank J. Lucchino, Controller for Allegheny County, Eugene Coon, Sheriff for Allegheny County, the Honorable Patrick R. Tamilia, Michael J. O'Malley and Marion K. Finkelhor, Judges Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County; Richard S. Caliguri, Mayor of the City of Pittsburgh, Harriet McCray, Monsg. Charles Owen Rice and Charles Kozakiewicz, Warden of the Allegheny County Jail, and William B. Robinson, Executive Director of Prison Inspectors and Cyril Wecht, Thomas Foerster and William H. Hunt, as Commissioners of Allegheny County, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided January 29, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward Feinstein (argued), Timothy P. O'Brien, Neighborhood Legal Services Ass'n, Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellees.

James H. McLean, County Sol., Dennis R. Biondo (argued), Allegheny County Law Dept. Pittsburgh, Pa., for appellants.

Before GIBBONS and BECKER, Circuit Judges, and VAN DUSEN, Senior Circuit Judge.

OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge:

County Officials of Allegheny County appeal from two orders entered by the United States District Court in the longstanding dispute over conditions at the Allegheny County Jail. In No. 84-3191 they appeal from an order dated March 13, 1984, denying their motion for modification of a May 25, 1983 order placing maximum population limits for male and female inmates in the...

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