Legal Opinion
Jones v. St. Tammany Parish Jail
District Court, E.D. Louisiana
Decided May 8, 1998No. CIV. A. 96-3737PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER AND REASONS
MENTZ, District Judge.
Plaintiff David Jones brought this lawsuit for damages under federal civil rights laws 42 U.S.C. §§ 1981, 1983, 1985(3), 1986, and 1988 and Louisiana negligence law. His suit is based on alleged failures to provide adequate medical care and unsafe conditions at the St. Tammany Parish Jail where he was a housed for three weeks in October, 1996 as a pre-trial detainee. Jones sued St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Rodney J. Strain, Warden E.T. Mongovan, 1 Captain Gregory Longino, Prison Guard James Doe, the St. Tammany Parish Jail, the Parish of St. Tammany, and…
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