United States Ninth Circuit

In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action based on a prisoner's suicide, summary judgment for defendants is reversed where: 1) a reasonable jury could find that defendant police officers were liable for their deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical need; and 2) defendant city could be found liable for failure to properly train the officers.

Appellate Information

• Argued 10/20/2008
• Decided 07/24/2009
• Published 07/24/2009

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, D.W. NELSON and STEPHEN REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Terri Keyser-Cooper, Reno, NV, and Diane K. Vaillancourt, Santa Cruz, CA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Kadlic, Reno City Attorney, Donald L. Christensen, Deputy City Attorney, Reno, NV, for the defendants-appellees.