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JORDAN v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY

No. 84-4122.

799 F.2d 1262 (1986)

Gary JORDAN; Douglas Smalley; Robert C. Curvey; Raymond L. Wielebski; Wallace Washington; Richard Kienitz; Herman Jackson; Donald Cobbs; Frank Jackson; and all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Appellants, and Jerome E. LaBarre of LaBarre and Associates, P.C., Petitioner-Appellant, v. MULTNOMAH COUNTY; Dennis Buchanan, County Executive; Fred Pearce, Sheriff; and Robert Skipper, Chief, Division of Corrections; each in their official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided September 11, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome E. LaBarre, LaBarre & Associates, P.C., Portland, Or., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Phil Goldsmith, Herbert B. Newberg, Portland, Or., amicus curiae.

John B. Leahy, County Counsel, Jane Ellen Stonecipher, Multnomah Asst. County Counsel, Portland, Or., for defendants-appellees.

Before GOODWIN, PREGERSON and CANBY, Circuit Judges.

CANBY, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-appellants represent the class of "all present and future pretrial detainees, and all present and future sentenced offenders within the Multnomah County [Oregon] justice system." In 1982, we affirmed an award of attorneys' fees pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988 to plaintiffs as prevailing parties in an action seeking injunctive relief under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. The action was brought to remedy conditions of confinement at the Rocky...

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