United States Fourth Circuit

Denial of defendants-sheriff deputies' motion for summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case alleging defendants exhibited deliberate indifference to a risk that an inmate would commit suicide is reversed in part where the district court erred in denying summary judgment to certain officers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/01/2005
• Decided 02/02/2006
• Published 02/02/2006

Judges

• Before WILKINS, Chief Judge, GREGORY, Circuit Judge, and WALTER D. KELLEY, JR., United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Brian Keith Brake, Keeler Obenshain, P.C., Harrisonburg, Virginia, for Appellants.  Blair Duncan Howard, Howard, Morrison & Howard, Warrenton, Virginia, for Appellee.   ON BRIEF:  Patrick C. Asplin, Keeler Obenshain, P.C., Harrisonburg, Virginia, for Appellants.   Christopher T. Whelan, Paul A. Morrison, Howard, Morrison & Howard, Warrenton, Virginia, for Appellee.