Spurlock v. Townes

ORDER CERTIFYING QUESTION TO NEW MEXICO SUPREME COURT *

JEROME A. HOLMES Circuit Judge.

Heather Spurlock, Nina Carrera, and Sophia Carrasco (collectively “Plaintiffs”) sued Corrections Corporation of America (“CCA”), Warden Barbara Wagner, and Officer Anthony Townes (collectively “Defendants”), alleging various state tort claims and, pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, violations of their Eighth Amendment rights, after being sexually assaulted by Officer Townes at a private detention center operated by CCA. A jury found for Plaintiffs on certain claims and Defendants on others. These ensuing…