United States Eighth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 brought by a widow whose husband died following an acute asthma attack while detained in a county jail, grant of defendants' motion for judgment as a matter of law is affirmed where the evidence did not permit reasonable jurors to find that any defendant was deliberately indifferent to the decedent's serious medical needs.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/11/2006
• Published 07/11/2006

Judges

• LOKEN, Chief Judge., Before LOKEN, Chief Judge, LAY and SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael W. Strain, argued, Sturgis, SD (Gregory M. Garrison, San Diego, CA, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas E. Brady, argued, Spearfish, SD, for appellee.