Legal Opinion
Perez v. Oakland County
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided October 18, 2006No. 05-1583PublishedCited by 314 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
RICHARD D. CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
This is a tragic case. In November 2002, eighteen-year-old Ariel Perez, Jr. (Perez) hung himself from a bedsheet tied to a vent in his single cell in the Oakland County Jail in Pontiac, Michigan, resulting in his death three days later. Perez’s father, plaintiff-appellant Ariel Perez, Sr. (Perez Sr.), the personal representative of Perez’s estate, brought a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action in the district court against the Oakland County, Michigan, caseworker/counselor at the jail Roberta Rice, the Oakland County Sheriff and several of his deputies and jail…
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