Legal Opinion
Toney C. McKuhen v. Transformhealthrx, Inc.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided July 15, 2016No. A16A0176PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MILLER, Presiding Judge.
On January 23, 2012, Carol McKuhen was arrested and jailed in Effingham County on a probation violation. At 1:30 a.m. on January 30, she was found dead in her isolation cell. An autopsy determined that she died of chronic ethanolism with hypertensive heart disease. *355Toney McKuhen,1 Carol’s surviving spouse, and Tori and Taylor McKuhen, as co-administrators of Carol’s estate, filed a civil action under 42 USC § 1983 against jail personnel Merlin Ward, John Reinhart, William Gibson, and Sheriff Jimmy McDuffie2 (collectively “Jail Defendants”). The McKuhens also named as…
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2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Estelle v. GambleSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Farmer v. BrennanSupreme Court of the United States · 1994
- West v. AtkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1988
- Bingham v. ThomasCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 2011
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