Legal Opinion
Valentine v. Englehardt
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided July 18, 1979No. Civ. A. 78-270PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
STERN, District Judge.
In this class action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by the inmates of the Passaic County Jail, many of whom are pretrial detainees, the Court must decide whether that institution’s visitation regulations, which completely ban all minor children from seeing their incarcerated parents and limit all inmates to a total of thirty minutes of non-contact visiting time a week, with a maximum of two adult visitors, are constitutional. On the basis of the testimony, papers and argument in this case, the Court finds that the Passaic County Jail procedures totally…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Sosna v. IowaSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
- Louis Wolfish v. Honorable Edward LeviCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1978
- Richard Franklin Miller v. Dale Carson, Individually and in His Capacity as Sheriff of Duval County, FloridaCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Toussaint v. McCarthyDistrict Court, N.D. California · 1984
- Inmates of the Allegheny County Jail v. PierceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1979
- Commonwealth v. LapiaSuperior Court of Pennsylvania · 1983
- Dawson v. KendrickDistrict Court, S.D. West Virginia · 1981
- Martino v. CareyDistrict Court, D. Oregon · 1983
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