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S.D. New York· 6/8/1989

Langley v. Coughlin

Citations

  • 715 F. Supp. 522
  • 1989 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6609
  • 1989 WL 62084

How courts have described this case

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  • holding viable claim that prison officials’ failure to “screen out” those inmates that “by virtue of their mental condition, are likely to be severely and adversely affected by placement there”
  • holding viable claim that prison officials” failure to “screen out” those inmates that “by virtue of their mental condition, are likely to be severely and adversely affected by placement there”
  • finding allegations that 9 subclasses each encompassed anywhere between 30 and 250 class members were 10 sufficient to meet numerosity requirement for class and subclass certification
  • rejecting defendants’ argument that damages for unconstitutional conditions of confinement could not be determined on class-wide basis in part because “courts have been perfectly willing, based simply on proof of objective conditions in a prison, to award per diem damages”
  • “[W]e are satisfied that plaintiffs would prevail on the class certification issue even if it were entirely their burden to sustain such certification de novo.”
  • “[T]he Court must take into consideration that an eve-of-trial decertification could adversely and unfairly prejudice class members, who may be unable to protect their own interests.”

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