United States Second Circuit

In an appeal concerning the effect of the Prison Litigation Reform Act of 1995 on consent decrees settling class actions brought by pretrial detainees, challenging conditions of confinement at city jails, specific findings regarding 1) bed-spacing, 2) lighting requirements, and 3) the constitutional adequacy of food-service areas, are vacated.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/02/2003
• Published 09/02/2003

Judges

• B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge., Before:  McLAUGHLIN, B.D. PARKER, JR., and RAGGI, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth I. Freedman, Assistant Corporation Counsel of the City of New York (Leonard Koerner, Florence A. Hutner, June R. Buch, Assistant Corporation Counsels, on the brief), for Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel of the City of New York, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellants-Cross-Appellees., Daniel L. Greenberg, The Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project (John Boston, Dale A. Wilker, Madeline H. deLone, Lisa Freeman, on the brief), New York, NY, for Plaintiffs-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.