Legal Opinion
David Crawley Elwood H. Jones Larry Smith Frank Bracey, Plaintiffs v. Hamilton County Commissioners Sheriff Lincoln Stokes Warden William Whitworth
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 20, 1984No. 84-3121PublishedCited by 150 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs, inmates at the Community Correctional Institution in Cincinnati, Ohio, appeal the district court’s dismissal of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 lawsuit challenging the conditions of their confinement. The court dismissed the case in deference to what it considered to be a parallel, state-court proceeding.
The inmates at CCI first filed suit against the operators of the jail challenging their conditions of confinement under the eighth and fourteenth amendments in March of 1972. The case was filed in the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. The trial…
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