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INMATES OF THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL v. WECHT

Civ. A. No. 76-743.

699 F.Supp. 1137 (1988)

INMATES OF THE ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL, Thomas Price Bey, Arthur Goslee, Robert Maloney, and Calvin Milligan on their own behalf and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Cyril H. WECHT, President of the Allegheny County Board of Prison Inspectors and the other members of the Board: Thomas Foerster and William H. 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. Caliguiri, 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, Defendants, v. COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, Third-Party Defendant.

United States District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania.

November 17, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George C. Diamantopulos, Asst. Allegheny County Sol., Pittsburgh, Pa., for defendants.

Donald Driscoll, Neighborhood Legal Services Assn., Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiff.

Thomas F. Halloran, Office of Atty. Gen., Pittsburgh, Pa., for third-party defendant.

Lynette Norton, Sherman & Picadio, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Court Monitor.

OPINION

COHILL, Chief Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

Presently before the Court are (1) plaintiffs' Motion for Sanctions, (2) defendants' Motion to Increase Population Cap at the Allegheny County Jail, and (3) third-party defendant's Motion to Dismiss. The recurring issue permeating this case is whether the inmates in the custody of defendant County of Allegheny, et al., ("County")...

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