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TAYLOR v. STERRETT

Civ. A. Nos. 3-5220-B, 3-4138-C.

344 F.Supp. 411 (1972)

Joseph TAYLOR et al. v. W. L. STERRETT et al. Julius Dwaine PERRY, Sr., et al. v. James E. (Bill) DECKER et al.

United States District Court, N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

June 5, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dallas Legal Services Foundation, Inc., Robert L. Byrd, Sam K. Eck, John F. Jordan, Jesus B. Ochoa, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs; Stanley A. Bass, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, New York City, of counsel.

John B. Tolle, Asst. Dist. Atty., Dallas, Tex., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND JUDGMENT

HUGHES, District Judge.

This civil rights suit considers conditions of life experienced by prisoners at the Dallas County jail. The plaintiffs, Joseph Taylor, James Douglas Thompson and John Henry Woods, Jr., are inmates at the Dallas County jail. They have brought this action for themselves and as representatives of a class comprising all the inmates of the jail.

The defendants are Dallas County officials charged...

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