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U.S. v. COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS

No. 10 C 2946.

761 F.Supp.2d 794 (2011)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiffs, v. COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

January 11, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corey M. Sanders , Kerry Krentler Dean , United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Patrick Walter Johnson , United States Attorney's Office, Chicago, IL, for Plaintiff.

Patrick T. Driscoll, Jr. , Cook County State's Attorney, Colleen Bernadette Cavanaugh, Donald J. Pechous , Cook County State's Attorney's Office, Paul A. Ogrady , Daniel Francis Gallagher , Querrey & Harrow, Ltd., Chicago, IL, for Defendants.

Opinion of Three-Judge District Court

PER CURIAM.

The Sheriff of Cook County, who is the administrator of the Cook County Jail, has moved in this case for the entry of a prisoner release order, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 3626. Since at least 1974 the jail has been a target of litigation claiming that conditions in the jail violate the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishments clause (which has been held applicable to state and local government by...

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