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SHELBY COUNTY JAIL INMATES v. WESTLAKE

No. 85-2050.

798 F.2d 1085 (1986)

SHELBY COUNTY JAIL INMATES, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Richard W. WESTLAKE, Individually and as Sheriff of Shelby County, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided August 20, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael K. Sutherlin, Indianapolis, Ind., for plaintiffs-appellants.

J. Lee McNeely, McNeely Sanders & McNeely, Shelbyville, Ind., for defendants-appellees.

Before WOOD, COFFEY and FLAUM, Circuit Judges.

HARLINGTON WOOD, Jr., Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs filed the initial complaint in this case on May 29, 1981, seeking damages and equitable relief in their own right and as representatives of a class of inmates in the Shelby County Jail ("SCJ"). Roger Fair, Gary Pool, Harrison E. Wells, Oren Sweet, and Jack Stockton, the named plaintiffs, represented both pretrial detainees and convicted inmates serving a sentence or awaiting transfer to a state correctional facility...

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