United States Third Circuit

Dismissal of plaintiff-pre-trial detainees' claim of unconstitutional confinement is reversed where the district court improperly analyzed their claim under the Eighth Amendment, rather than the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/12/2004
• Decided 02/23/2005
• Published 02/23/2005

Judges

• Before SCIRICA, Chief Judge, ROTH and McKEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul E. Crawford, (Argued), Helena Rychlicki, Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz, Wilmington, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard W. Hubbard, (Argued), Gregory E. Smith, Deputy Attorneys General, State of Delaware, Department of Justice, Wilmington, for Appellees.