United States Third Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 suit brought by a corrections officer and his wife against a county and employees responsible for the operation of a correctional facility, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where plaintiffs' claims related to a failure to remedy conditions at a jail, and thus, they failed to state a cognizable substantive due process claim.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2006
• Decided 08/02/2006
• Published 08/02/2006

Judges

• Before SCIRICA, Chief Judge, BARRY and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• David Rudovsky, Esquire (Argued), Kairys, Rudovsky, Epstein & Messing, Philadelphia, PA, Martha Sperling, Esquire, Silver & Sperling, Doylestown, PA, Attorneys for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Frank A. Chernak, Esquire (Argued), Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Philadelphia, PA, Attorney for Appellees.