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RYAN v. BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J.

Civ. A. No. 85-2002 (MTB).

708 F.Supp. 623 (1989)

Timothy RYAN, Plaintiff, v. BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, Harold Colburn, Jr., Individually and collectively as the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders; Michael J. Conda, Individually and collectively as the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders; Catherine A. Costa, Individually and collectively as the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders; Henry J. Metzger, Individually and collectively as the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders; Robert C. Shinn, Jr., Individually and collectively as the Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders; John Bradman, Individually and officially as Warden of Burlington County Jail; Ed Pierce, Captain, Burlington County Jail; Ken Horton, Sergeant, Burlington County Jail; Roosevelt McKinney, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; Lewis Speight, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; Mike Polis, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; Richard Lightsey, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; Tim Flournoy, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; Guard Adams, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; Guard Gorham, Correction Officer, Burlington County Jail; William H. Fauver, Individually and as Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Corrections; and John Call, Individually and as Deputy Director of the Division of Adult Institutions in New Jersey, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey, Civil Division.

March 6, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Slimm, Dash and Goldberg, Westmont, N.J., by Kurt Denke, Joseph Goldberg, for plaintiff.

Rand, Algeier, Tosti & Woodruff, P.C., Morristown, N.J. by Robert M. Tosti, for defendants Burlington County Board of Chosen Freeholders, Colburn, Conda, Costa, Metzger, and Shinn.

Parker, McCay & Criscuolo, P.C., Marlton, N.J. by Jeffrey D. Schaffer, for defendants Gorham, Polis, Speight, McKinney, Adams, Pierce, Horton, Flournoy, Lightsey and Bradman.

OPINION

BARRY, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The events which led to the grievous injuries suffered by plaintiff Timothy Ryan on October 4, 1983 have been fully set forth in my earlier opinion, Ryan v. Burlington County, 674 F.Supp. 464 (D.N.J. 1987), and will be but briefly summarized here. The locus of those events was the Burlington County Jail, a facility which it is undisputed was sorely lacking...

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