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INMATES OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY JAIL v. WECHT

Civ. A. No. 76-743.

797 F.Supp. 428 (1992)

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.

June 26, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter G. Nychis, Asst. Allegheny County Sol., Pittsburgh, Pa., for county defendants.

Donald Driscoll, Neighborhood Legal Services Assn., Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs inmates.

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

Lynette Norton, Picadio McCall Kane & Norton, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Jail Monitor.

OPINION

COHILL, Chief Judge.

Introduction

Presently before us are a number of motions filed on behalf of the defendants, whom we shall refer to as the "County" or "Allegheny County," and also motions by the plaintiff class of inmates, "the inmates."

(1) Motion to extend the time for closing the old jail and extending the time for completing the new one filed by the County;

(2...

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