Legal Opinion
Brown v. Callahan
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided October 7, 2010No. 09-10843PublishedCited by 383 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Chief Judge:
Jason Brown died tragically while detained in the Wichita County Jail. His estate sued Sheriff Thomas Callahan for failure to train and supervise the jail’s medical employees and for maintaining an unconstitutional policy of deliberate indifference to detainees’ serious medical needs. The district court denied Sheriff Callahan’s motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity, and he appeals. Because there is insufficient evidence of deliberate indifference or objective unreasonableness by the Sheriff, we reverse.
I. BACKGROUND
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2Cases cited17 opinions
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