Deceased inmate’s father’s civil rights suit

Jones v. Muskegon County, 09-2125, concerned a challenge to the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, in a deceased inmate’s father’s action raising a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim and state law claims for gross negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress against members of the medical staff, corrections officers, and the county, for his son’s death while incarcerated at the county jail.

 

However, the court reversed and remanded the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the two of the three nurses, on plaintiff’s section 1983 and gross negligence claims, as there is sufficient evidence to raise a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the two nurses knew of the risk to the deceased inmate’s health, yet consciously disregarded the risk;

Related Link:

  • Read the Sixth Circuit’s Full Decision in Jones v. Muskegon County, 09-2125

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