Legal Opinion
Genise Hart v. Michael Sheahan, Sheriff of Cook County, and Cook County
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 1, 2005No. 04-1443PublishedCited by 29 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from the dismissal,, for failure to state a claim, of a suit by female inmates of the Cook County Jail in Chicago against the jail’s superintendent and the County: The plaintiffs are pretrial detainees who complain that the defendants, by gratuitously exposing them to dangerous and degrading conditions of confinement, are depriving them of their liberty, without, due process of law and thus violating thé Fourteenth 'Amendment. They seek an injunction and damages.
We begin with a difficult question of appellate jurisdiction. The plaintiffs .appealed…
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