United States Fifth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. 1983 suit brought by survivors of a man who hung himself while being held in a county jail, summary judgment for individual defendants on qualified-immunity grounds, and directed verdict in favor of defendant-county and individual defendants in their official capacity, are affirmed where: 1) defendant-sheriff was not subject to liability on theories of failure to promulgate policies on medical care or failure to supervise; 2) expert medical testimony was reasonably excluded; and 3) defendant-county was not liable as a municipality on either policy or deliberate-indifference theories.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/02/2008
• Published 12/02/2008

Judges

• HAYNES, Circuit Judge:, Before BENAVIDES, SOUTHWICK and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• John Samuel Hill (argued), Lamar Bradley Dillard (argued), Stephen Pierce Spencer, Mitchell, McNutt & Sams, Tupelo, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• James Lawson Hester (argued), Jacqueline H. Ray, Page, Kruger & Holland, Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.