United States Second Circuit

Injunction against municipal-defendants involving a class action by inmates of city jails challenging defendants' asserted failure to provide them with educational services pursuant to state and federal law is vacated in part as to portions of the injunction based purely on state law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/17/2006
• Published 01/17/2006

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  NEWMAN, SACK, and HALL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Janice Birnbaum, Assistant Corporation Counsel, New York City Law Department (Michael A. Cardozo, Corporation Counsel, Leonard Corner and Jane L. Gordon, Assistant Corporation Counsel, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellants-Cross Appellees., Dori A. Lewis, The Legal Aid Society, Prisoners' Rights Project (Steven Banks, Mary Lynne Werlwas, John Boston, of counsel), New York, NY, for Appellees-Cross-Appellants.