Legal Opinion
Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County Jail
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 15, 1992No. 90-954PublishedCited by 1,124 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
In these cases, the District Court denied a motion of the sheriff of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, to modify a consent *372decree entered to correct unconstitutional conditions at the Suffolk County Jail. The Court of Appeals affirmed. The issue before us is whether the courts below applied the correct standard in denying the motion. We hold that they did not and remand these cases for further proceedings.
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This litigation began in 1971 when inmates sued the Suffolk County sheriff, the Commissioner of Correction for the State of Massachusetts, the mayor of Boston, and nine city councilors,…
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