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HEATH v. DeCOURCY

Nos. 91-3778, 92-3317.

992 F.2d 630 (1993)

James HEATH, First Named Class Representative; Harold Lancy; Harold Keith; Johnny Edwards; Kenneth Thompson; Edward Akerson; Michael R. Blum; Herbert Hayes; David F. Burke; Gary W.J. Bevins; Bailey Jerome Hayes; Gene H. Gregg; plaintiff class members, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Joseph M. DeCOURCY, Norman A. Murdock, Robert E. Taft, II, as Commissioners of Hamilton County, and Simon L. Leis, Jr., as Sheriff of Hamilton County, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided April 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen H. Olden (argued and briefed), Jennifer J. Branch (briefed), Legal Aid Soc. of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Pierce Edward Cunningham, Frost & Jacobs, Robert E. Taylor, Asst. Pros. Atty. (argued and briefed), Cincinnati, OH, for defendants-appellees.

Michael J. O'Hara, O'Hara, Ruberg & Taylor, Covington, KY, James K. Rogers (briefed), American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio, Cincinnati, OH, amicus curiae American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio.

Before: MARTIN and SILER, Circuit Judges; and CLELAND, District Judge.

SILER, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs, a class of present and future inmates, appeal the district court's orders of: (1) a partial termination of supervision and jurisdiction over consent decrees pertaining to the operation of the Hamilton County Jail Annex and the Hamilton County Justice Center; and (2) a modification of the consent decrees so as to permit unrestricted double-celling of inmates and an increase in the Annex and Justice Center inmate population. For the...

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