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BRADFORD v. GARDNER

No. CIV-2-82-143.

578 F.Supp. 382 (1984)

George F. BRADFORD and Pierre A. Cote v. Mike GARDNER, Sheriff of Sullivan County, and Sullivan County Sheriff's Department.

United States District Court, E.D. Tennessee, Northeastern Division.

January 31, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George F. Bradford and Pierre A. Cote, plaintiffs, pro se.

James W. Bradford, Jr. and William C. Bovender, of Hunter, Smith & Davis, Kingsport, Tenn., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDERS

HULL, District Judge.

George F. Bradford and Pierre A. Cote, pro se plaintiffs, brought this civil rights action challenging the conditions of confinement at the Sullivan County Jail. 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983. While state law makes the sheriff the appropriate defendant in such an action. See Madewell v. Garmon, 484 F.Supp. 823 (D.Tenn.1980), the Sheriff's department itself is not a suable...

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