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INMATES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL v. KEARNEY

No. 90-1858.

928 F.2d 33 (1991)

INMATES OF SUFFOLK COUNTY JAIL, et al., Plaintiffs, Appellees, v. Dennis J. KEARNEY, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided March 21, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chester A. Janiak, with whom Walter M. Foster and Burns & Levinson, were on brief, Boston, Mass., for appellant, Sheriff of Suffolk County.

Jon Laramore, Asst. Atty. Gen., and James M. Shannon, Atty. Gen., on brief, Boston, Mass., for Massachusetts Com'r of Correction, amicus curiae.

Lynn Weissberg with whom Max D. Stern and Stern & Shapiro, were on brief, Boston, Mass., for appellees, Inmates of Suffolk County Jail.

Jane S. Schacter, Mark Simonoff, and Hill & Barlow, on brief, Boston, Mass., for Women's Bar Ass'n of Mass., amicus curiae.

Before BREYER, Chief Judge, CAMPBELL and TORRUELLA, Circuit Judges.

BREYER, Chief Judge.

In 1971 the inmates of the Suffolk County jail sued the Sheriff and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction, and others, claiming that overcrowded conditions at the Charles Street jail violated the federal Constitution. See Inmates of Suffolk County Jail v. Eisenstadt, 360 F.Supp. 676 (D.Mass.1973), aff'd, 494 F.2d 1196 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 419...

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