Cody v. City of St. Louis

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION JAMES CODY, et al. ) ) Plaintiffs, ) ) v. ) Case No. 4:17-CV-2707 AGF ) CITY OF ST. LOUIS, ) ) Defendant. ) MEMORANDUM AND ORDER The named plaintiffs in this putative class action claim that they endured inhumane conditions, in violation of the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments, while detained either pretrial or post-conviction in the City of St. Louis’s Medium Security Institution (“MSI”) at various points from January to October of 2017. They filed suit against the City under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, seeking class action…