Legal Opinion
Darnell v. City of New York
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 21, 2017No. Docket 15-2870PublishedCited by 1,535 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
JOHN G. KOELTL, District Judge:
This is a case about unconstitutional conditions of confinement for pretrial detainees. Twenty state pretrial detainees (“the plaintiffs”) 1 arrested on separate dates between July 10, 2011, and July 23, 2013, brought individual § 1983 claims in the same complaint against the City of New York (the “City”), New York City Police Department (“NYPD”) Captain Kenneth Kobetitsch, and NYPD Captain William Tobin (the “individual defendants”) (collectively, “the defendants”). 2 The plaintiffs alleged that they were each subjected to appalling conditions of confinement…
2Cases cited33 opinions
- Ashcroft v. IqbalSupreme Court of the United States · 2009
- Monell v. New York City Dept. of Social Servs.Supreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- Bell v. WolfishSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Rhodes v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1981
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3Cited by1,535 opinions
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