United States Fifth Circuit

In a wrongful death suit brought under 42 U.S.C. section 1983, judgment as a matter of law in favor of defendants affirmed because the plaintiff failed to prove the necessary causal link between decedent prisoner's death from testicular cancer, and the acts or omissions of the defendants.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/28/2002
• Published 10/28/2002

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before WIENER, EMILIO M. GARZA, and PARKER, Circuit Judges., Before WIENER and EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jim D. Waide, III (argued), Kristy Lynn Bennett, Waide & Associates, Tupelo, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant., John Samuel Hill, Lamar Bradley Dillard (argued), Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, Tupelo, MS, for Monroe County, MS., John Lewis Clay (argued), Jackson, MS, Leonard Charlton Vincent, Mississippi Dept. of Corrections, Parchman, MS, for Farmer and Bearry.