Legal Opinion
Jensen v. County of Lake
District Court, N.D. Indiana
Decided March 5, 1997No. H-74-230PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
LOZANO, District Judge.
This matter is before the Court on the Motion to Terminate Consent Decree and Judgment Order filed by Defendants, Lake County Council and Lake County Board of Commissioners, on December 4, 1996. For the reasons set forth below, the Court takes the motion UNDER ADVISEMENT. BACKGROUND
This lawsuit was filed in 1974 on behalf of the inmates of the Lake County Jail. The suit challenged the policies and procedures at the Lake County Jail and alleged several Eighth Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment violations. Specifically, Count One of the amended complaint claimed that…
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