Legal Opinion
Dan Duran v. Richard J. Elrod
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 26, 1985No. 85-1534PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
The administrators of the Cook County (Illinois) Jail appeal from an order refusing to lift, for seven weeks, a provision in a class-action consent decree regulating the living accommodations in the jail. The jail houses people who are awaiting trial on criminal charges because they have been denied bail or (more commonly) have been unable or unwilling to post the amount of cash required to make bail; it also houses convicted defendants en route to a penitentiary to serve their sentence, but they are not involved in this litigation. In 1974 a class action was brought on…
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