United States Ninth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-county in a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 case arising from an elderly inmate's death of a cardiac arrest while incarcerated is reversed where plaintiff presented sufficient evidence to create a triable issue regarding the county's liability for the inmate's death.

Appellate Information

• Argued 12/05/2005
• Decided 03/28/2006
• Published 03/28/2006

Judges

• WILKEN, Disrict Judge:, Before: REINHARDT and RAWLINSON, Circuit Judges, and WILKEN , District Judge.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert Berke, Law Offices of Robert Berke, Santa Monica, CA, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mildred O'Linn and Janine McMillion, Manning & Marder Kass, Ellrod, Ramirez, LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendant-appellee., Martin Stein, Alison Turner and Eric R. Cioffi, Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland, LLP, for the defendant-appellee.