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VALENTINE v. ENGLEHARDT

Civ. A. No. 78-270.

474 F.Supp. 294 (1979)

Emmitt VALENTINE, William Coles, Bruce Cunningham, Nathaniel Dash, Winfred Gray, Tony McCutchen, Damon Wilder, on behalf of themselves and all other persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Edwin ENGLEHARDT, Sheriff, Passaic County, John DeYoung, Warden, Passaic County Jail, Edward O'Byrne, Freeholder-Director, Joseph Bubba, Freeholder, Louise Friedman, Freeholder, S. M. Terry LaCorte, Freeholder, James Roe, Freeholder, Joseph Russo, Freeholder-Deputy Director, Cyril Yannarelli, Freeholder, all of Passaic County, New Jersey, and their successors in office, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey.

July 18, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffry A. Mintz, Acting Director, Dept. of Public Advocate, Trenton, N. J., for plaintiffs.

Martin Verp, Passaic County Counsel by Randy R. Kopf and James V. Convery, Asst. County Counsels, Paterson, N. J., for defendants.

OPINION

STERN, District Judge.

In this class action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by the inmates of the Passaic County Jail, many of whom are pretrial detainees, the Court must decide whether that institution's visitation regulations, which completely ban all minor children from seeing their incarcerated parents and limit all inmates to a total of thirty minutes of non-contact visiting time a week, with a maximum of two adult visitors, are constitutional...

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