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SAVINO v. SOUZA

CIVIL ACTION NO. 20-10617-WGY.

459 F.Supp.3d 317 (2020)

Maria Alejandra Celimen SAVINO, Julio Cesar Medeiros Neves, and all those similarly situated, Plaintiffs-Petitioners, v. Steven J. SOUZA, Superintendent of Bristol County House of Correction in his official capacity, Defendant-Respondent.

United States District Court, D. Massachusetts.

Filed May 12, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, Pro Hac Vice, Oren N. Nimni, Oren M. Sellstrom, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, Annaleigh E. Curtis, Gary B. Howell-Walton, John J. Butts, Lisa J. Pirozzolo, Rama S. Attreya, Vinita Ferrera, Felicia H. Ellsworth, Michael J. Brown, Nicole M.F. Dooley, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and DOIT LLP, Boston, MA, Muneer I. Ahmad, Pro Hac Vice, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School, Reena Parikh, Pro Hac Vice, Michael J. Wishnie, Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, for Plaintiffs-Petitioners.

Michael P. Sady, Thomas E. Kanwit, United States Attorney's Office, Boston, MA, for Defendant-Respondent.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION

I. INTRODUCTION

The Constitution dictates that the government reasonably safeguard those in its custody, for the power to incarcerate implies the duty to protect. How far does that duty go amidst the global pandemic of the COVID-19 virus? That is the enigma this Court, like others across the...

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