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JOHNSON v. HARDIN COUNTY, KY.

Nos. 89-5948, 89-6137.

908 F.2d 1280 (1990)

Edward L. JOHNSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. HARDIN COUNTY, KENTUCKY, Louis Lawson, and John Timbers, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed July 20, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Allen McCartney (argued), Louisville, Ky., Charles W. Durham, Miller & Durham, Radcliff, Ky., for plaintiff-appellee.

W. Kenneth Nevitt, C. Thomas Hectus (argued), Williams & Wagoner, Louisville, Ky., for defendants-appellants.

Before KENNEDY and WELLFORD, Circuit Judges, and JOINER, Senior District Judge.

KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.

Hardin County, Kentucky, Louis Lawson, in his official capacity as Jailer, and John Timbers, in his official capacity as Major of the jail, appeal a judgment in favor of Edward L. Johnson, a former prisoner incarcerated in the Hardin County Detention Center. Johnson brought suit under 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985 and the eighth and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution. The substance of Johnson's complaint was that...

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