Armstrong v. Metropolitan Government of Nashville

MEMORANDUM

HIGGINS, District Judge.

This action was commenced in March 1987 when several inmates and pre-trial detainees of the Metropolitan Government’s jails filed suit, alleging that the conditions of their confinement violated their rights under the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution. The matter was subsequently certified as a class action lawsuit, on behalf of every individual who was or would become an inmate of the Metropolitan Government’s jails. The history of this case since its inception has been long and arduous. In point of fact, at the time of this…