Merriweather v. Sherwood

MEMORANDUM ORDER AND DECISION

McMAHAON, District Judge.

Before the court is defendants’ objections to a Report and Recommendation by Magistrate Judge Mark D. Fox recommending that I deny defendants’ motion to strike plaintiffs’ motion to hold defendants in contempt of a Consent Judgement entered in this action more than twenty years ago. For the following reasons, I adopt Judge Fox’s recommendation.

BACKGROUND

This case began in 1977, when inmates from the Orange County Correctional Facility sued Orange County and its officials for alleged constitutional violations being committed at the prison.…