Legal Opinion
Jones v. Goord
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided September 27, 1999No. 95 Civ. 8026(WHP)PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
PAULEY, District Judge.
This section 1983 action involves an array of claims under the First, Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments based on the conditions of confinement, and in particular the practice of double-celling inmates, at thirteen maximum security correctional facilities in New York. Defendants move for an order, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 12(b)(6), dismissing the second consolidated and amended complaint in this action. Plaintiffs move for an order, pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 23, certifying a class and two subclasses of inmates who are aggrieved by the allegedly…
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