United States Tenth Circuit

Dismissal of pro se plaintiff's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 civil rights case arising from his arrest and detainment, for failure to state a claim on which relief can be granted, is affirmed in part as to claims against sheriff and police department, and reversed in part as to the dismissal of the complaint where the district court erred in not construing certain claims also as ones against other officers and jail officials.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/31/2006
• Published 11/01/2006

Judges

• PER CURIAM., Before HENRY, ANDERSON, and McCONNELL, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Submitted on the briefs:   Edward Arlen Johnson, pro se.


• For Appellees:
  
• David L. Church, Blaisdell and Church, Salt Lake City, UT, for Midvale Police Defendant-Appellee., T.J. Tsakalos and N.M. D'Alesandro, Salt Lake City, UT, for Sheriff Aaron D. Kennard Defendant-Appellee.