Legal Opinion
Long v. Armstrong County
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided May 31, 2016No. Civil Action No. 2:15-cv-1447PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Mark R. Hornak, United States District Judge
What happened to Tammy Long was unspeakable. Her estate and family allege that what the Defendant County did was inexcusable. The question here is whether federal civil rights law provides a remedy to the Plaintiffs. For the reasons that follow, the Court is constrained to conclude that it does not. ,
Tammy E. Long was a resident of Kit-tanning Pennsylvania, a Pennsylvania municipality that also houses the Armstrong County Jail (“Jail”). Ms. Long lived with Mr. Terry Slagle, and the two shared a residence located- about a quarter mile from the…
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