Hubbard v. Taylor.

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U.S. Appeals Court

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Hubbard v. Taylor, 399 F.3d 150 (3rd Cir. 2005). Pretrial detainees filed a suit under [section] 1983, challenging the conditions of their confinement on Fourteenth Amendment due process grounds. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants and the detainees appealed. The appeals court vacated and remanded. The court held that the district must employ the "due process" analysis to determine whether the conditions of confinement amounted to "punishment" that was improperly imposed prior to the adjudication of guilt, not the Eighth Amendment...