Legal Opinion
Wallace v. McDonald
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided February 27, 1973No. 72-C-898PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JUDD, District Judge.
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
In this civil rights action by state detainees, the court reserved decision on plaintiffs’ motion to declare it a class action and defendants’ motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter and failure to state a claim. F.R.Civ.P. 12(b). Defendants’ motion was directed to the first amended complaint, but has been treated as applicable also to the second amended complaint, which is similar in nature.
The action was instituted by indigent state detainees, arrested or indicted for felonies and incarcerated in the Brooklyn House of…
2Cases cited35 opinions
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