United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants on a mother's 42 U.S.C. section 1983 claim alleging that defendants acted with deliberate indifference with respect to the medical treatment of her son while in the custody is affirmed where there was an absence of expert proof of a causal connection between defendants' medical treatment and the decedent's death from a rare autoimmune disease.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/15/2006
• Published 08/15/2006

Judges

• GRUENDER, Circuit Judge., Before SMITH, HEANEY and GRUENDER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Marceliers Hewett, Little Rock, AR, for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Alan Humphries, White Hall, AR, for appellees Correctional Medical Services, Inc., Dr. James Branch, and Betty Leatherwood., Scott P. Richardson, AAG, of Little Rock, AR, for appellees Larry Norris, Kay Howell and John Byus.