Legal Opinion
Hare ex rel. Hare v. City of Corinth
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1994No. 93-7192PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POLITZ, Chief Judge:
On appeal is the claim of qualified immunity by Officer Billy Clyde Burns, Police Chief Fred Johnson, and police dispatchers Brenda Moore and James Damons, all members of the police department of Corinth, Mississippi, in this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action arising out of the suicide of Tina Hare in that city’s jail. Concluding that summary judgment was inappropriate because of disputed questions of fact and, accordingly, that this appeal presents more than a question of law, the appeal is dismissed.
Background
On the morning of July 4, 1989, Tina Hare was arrested for petty larceny…
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