Legal Opinion
Inmates of the Suffolk County Jail v. Rufo
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 21, 1993No. 93-1460PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
The Commissioner of Corrections for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (the “Commissioner”), defendant-appellant, brought a motion in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts to vacate a consent decree of May 7, 1979 (as modified by the orders of April 11,1985, and April 22, 1985) 1 entered into by the Sheriff of Suffolk County (the “Sheriff’), the Commissioner, and others with the inmates of the Suffolk County Jail (the “Inmates”), 2 the plaintiff-appellee class. The district court denied the Commissioner’s motion. Inmates of…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
- United States v. Swift & Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Rufo v. Inmates of Suffolk County JailSupreme Court of the United States · 1992
- Board of Ed. of Oklahoma City Public Schools v. DowellSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
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