Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Heffron
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 9, 1996No. 95-1836PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENNEDY, Circuit Judge.
In this prisoners’ civil rights action, defendants Kent County Sheriff Philip Heffron and Kent County Correctional Facility (defendants collectively called “KCCF”), appeal the denial of their motion to vacate a consent judgment and terminate the court’s jurisdiction pursuant to rule 60(b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.1 For the following reasons, we REVERSE the District Court’s denial of defendants’ motion.
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Plaintiffs filed this action in 1979 on behalf of pretrial detainees at KCCF alleging that conditions at the jail violated the detainees’ constitutional…
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