Legal Opinion
Philomene Long, Surviving Spouse and Heir-At-Law of John Thomas Idlet, Deceased v. County of Los Angeles
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 28, 2006No. 04-55463PublishedCited by 1,345 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILKEN, Disrict Judge:
John Thomas Idlet, the decedent, reported to the Los Angeles County Jail on March 11, 2002, to begin a 120-day jail sentence. Mr. Idlet was seventy-one years old and suffered from congestive heart failure and other ailments. Over the next eighteen days Mr. Idlet’s medical condition deteriorated. Although nurses saw him several times during that period, there is no record of a doctor’s examination until the early morning of March 29, 2002, hours before he died of cardiac arrest.
Mr. Idlet’s wife, the Plaintiff and Appellant in this action, filed a complaint, based on 42…
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