WILLIAMS v. CITY OF CLEVELAND

Nos. 16-4237/17-3508.

907 F.3d 924 (2018)

Tynisa WILLIAMS, Individually and on Behalf of a Class of Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF CLEVELAND, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: November 2, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Stephen W. Funk , ROETZEL & ANDRESS, LPA, Akron, Ohio, for Appellant. Elmer Robert Keach, III , LAW OFFICES OF ELMER ROBERT KEACH, III, PC, Albany, New York, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Stephen W. Funk , ROETZEL & ANDRESS, LPA, Akron, Ohio, Thomas J. Kaiser , CITY OF CLEVELAND, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellant. Elmer Robert Keach, III , LAW OFFICES OF ELMER ROBERT KEACH, III, PC, Albany, New York, D. Aaron Rihn , ROBERT PEIRCE & ASSOCIATES, PC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Nicholas Migliaccio , MIGLIACCIO & RATHOD, LLP, Washington, D.C., Daniel Karon , KARON LLP, Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellee.

SILER, J., delivered the opinion of the court in which COOK, J., joined, and WHITE, J., joined in part. WHITE, J. (pp. 938-41), delivered a separate opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part.


OPINION

In 2009, Tynisa Williams brought suit against the City of Cleveland ("the City"), on behalf of herself and others similarly situated,1 pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983. She alleged that the City's intake procedures conducted at its House of Corrections ("HOC") — consisting...

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