Court Opinion

ID: 9465572
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:50:06.940121+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:15.078369
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MacKINNON, Circuit Judge,
concurring:
I agree with the result reached in this case solely on the ground that the record does not permit a finding to a legal certainty that the $10,000 jurisdictional amount of 28 U.S.C. § 1331 was not satisfied. Hunt v. Washington State Apple Advertising Commission, 432 U.S. 333, 346, 97 S.Ct. 2434, 53 L.Ed.2d 383 (1977); St. Paul Mercury Indemnity Co. v. Red Cab Co., 303 U.S. 283, 288-289, 58 S.Ct. 586, 82 L.Ed. 845 (1938). In so deciding I do not conclude that the prisoners by any evidentiary proof have “sustained” any showing that their claims actually have a value of $10,000 or more.
Appellants complain that they are denied various constitutional rights because as “confessed homosexual prisoners or pretrial detainees [apparently non-admitted homosexuals]” they are administratively segregated from other male prisoners at the District of Columbia Jail. It would seem hardly doubtful that there is a need for segregating “confessed homosexuals” from other prisoners. In fact, if the cases that have reached this court are any criterion, more provable damage might result if the homosexuals were not segregated. But there is room for complaining by the “accused . homosexuals” that they were not proven homosexuals and should not have been segregated absent reasonable proof thereof.1 Also, once segregated they are entitled to satisfactory conditions of confinement. Since there are allegations that some of their conditions of confinement are unsatisfactory and that their movement is otherwise unreasonably restricted, I concur in the remand.
I also specifically disagree with the reference to Campbell v. Magruder, 188 U.S.App.D.C. 258, 580 F.2d 521 (1978), which is on remand to the district court, since its factual base has no relevance to the issue here presented. The multitudinous claims asserted in that case are hardly authority that such a period of unlawful confinement as *1102was alleged in this case satisfies the $10,000 jurisdictional prerequisite.

. One of three plaintiffs alleges he did not sign the sheet admitting homosexuality. He does not assert that he is not a homosexual.