DOTY v. COUNTY OF LASSEN

Nos. 91-16755, 93-16163.

37 F.3d 540 (1994)

Barbara DOTY, and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. COUNTY OF LASSEN, and Ronald D. Jarrell as Sheriff, and Individually, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence T. Woodlock, Downey, Brand, Seymour & Rohwer, Sacramento, CA, for defendants-appellants.

Richard A. Derevan, Snell & Wilmer, Irvine, CA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before: ALARCON and FERNANDEZ, Circuit Judges, and WILSON, District Judge.


WILSON, District Judge:

On July 25, 1989, certain inmates at the old Lassen County Jail ("Old Jail") brought suit against the County of Lassen ("County") and the Sheriff of the County of Lassen under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging that conditions in the Old Jail violated the First, Fourth and Eighth Amendments of the Constitution of the United States as applied to the states through the Fourteenth Amendment. Among other things, the prisoners alleged overcrowding,...

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