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SWAIN v. JR.

No. 20-11622-C.

958 F.3d 1081 (2020)

Anthony SWAIN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Daniel JUNIOR, in his official capacity as Director of the Miami-Dade Corrections and Rehabilitation Department, and Miami-Dade County, Florida, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

May 5, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alec George Karakatsanis , Katherine Claire Hubbard , Alexandria Twinem , Civil Rights Corps, WASHINGTON, DC, Thomas B. Harvey , Tiffany Yang , Advancement Project, WASHINGTON, DC, Meena Jagannath , Community Justice Project, Inc., MIAMI, FL, Lida Rodriguez-Taseff , DLA Piper, LLP (US), MIAMI, FL, Katherine A. Sanoja , Rodney Quinn Smith, II , GST, LLP, MIAMI, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Ezra Saul Greenberg , Bernard Pastor , Oren Rosenthal , Zachary Edward Vosseler , Jennifer L. Hochstadt , Ana Angelica Viciana , Erica S. Zaron , Miami-Dade County Attorney's Office, MIAMI, FL, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before: WILSON, WILLIAM PRYOR and BRANCH, Circuit Judges.

BY THE COURT:

No part of our country has escaped the effects of COVID-19. It is thus not surprising that several inmates at the Metro West Detention Center ("Metro West")—the largest direct-supervision jail facility in the State of Florida—have tested positive for the virus. This appeal concerns the adequacy of the measures implemented by Metro West to protect its prisoners from the spread of COVID-19.

On April 5, 2020, seven Metro West inmates...

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