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PENLAND v. WARREN COUNTY JAIL

No. 85-5439.

797 F.2d 332 (1986)

George E. PENLAND, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, Vernon Ward, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WARREN COUNTY JAIL; Billy Delaney, in his official capacity as Sheriff of Warren County, Tennessee; and H.T. Pelham, in his official capacity as County Executive of Warren County, Tennessee, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided August 1, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Kozlowski (argued), Legal Services of South Central Tennessee, Inc., Tullahoma, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert W. Boyd, Jr. (argued), McMinnville, Tenn., for defendants-appellees.

Before LIVELY, Chief Judge, MERRITT and JONES, Circuit Judges.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal the District Court's order denying certification of their proposed class action and the magistrate's adverse ruling on two substantive issues in their prisoner civil rights action over conditions in a small county jail on the Cumberland plateau in Tennessee.

Plaintiffs George Penland and Jimmy Earls filed this action pro se while serving time at the Warren County Jail in Tennessee. Later, able counsel filed an amended...

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