Jackson v. Hendrick

Opinion by

Judge Doyle,

The District Attorney and the City of Philadelphia appeal from the orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County denying the City’s Exceptions to the Decrees Nisi entered and denying the District Attorney’s Petition to Intervene in this case.

This litigation began in 1971 when five prisoners (Plaintiffs) in the Philádelphia Prison System filed a class action in equity seeking injunctive relief from conditions of confinement which allegedly violated their constitutional and statutory rights. The case was assigned to a three judge panel of the court of common…