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LUCAS v. WASSER

No. 76 Civ. 1057 (HFW).

425 F.Supp. 955 (1976)

Richard LUCAS et al., Plaintiffs, v. Joseph WASSER, Individually and as Sheriff of Sullivan County, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

August 26, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael J. Goldberg, David L. Posner, Mid-Hudson Valley Legal Services Project (Monroe County Legal Assistance Corp.), Monticello, N.Y., and Daan Braverman, Greater Up-State Law Project, Monroe County Legal Assistance Corp., Rochester, N.Y., for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of N.Y., by Jules E. Orenstein, Asst. Atty. Gen., New York City, for defendants Commissioners of the New York State Commissions of Correction.

OPINION

WERKER, District Judge.

This is a suit brought on behalf of all pre-trial detainees at the Sullivan County Jail (hereinafter "SCJ") seeking declaratory and injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, based on the conditions under which they are so confined. Plaintiffs claim that the jail conditions at the SCJ violate the first, sixth, eighth, ninth and fourteenth amendments of the United States Constitution. The conditions complained of include...

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