Legal Opinion
Shepherd v. Dallas County
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided December 18, 2009No. 08-10918PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
Stanley Shepherd, a pretrial detainee, suffered a stroke and permanent disability due to the failure of the Dallas County Jail to administer the pills he had to take to ameliorate his chronic hypertension. That failure, Shepherd showed below, was not an unintended error but the predictable result of a de facto policy that denied inmates adequate care for chronic conditions. At summary judgment, the district court ruled that Shepherd’s § 1983 claim was best characterized as a challenge to his conditions of confinement, and the jury subsequently awarded him $890,336…
2Cases cited13 opinions
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