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Sours ex rel. Estate of Sours v. Big Sandy Regional Jail Authority
District Court, E.D. Kentucky
Decided May 28, 2013No. Civil Action No. 11-115-ARTPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
AMUL R. THAPAR, District Judge.
On July 13, 2010, James Sours was arrested and booked into the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center. R. 52-1. Two days later Sours was dead. R. 52-14. The tragic events that led to Sours’s death are the subject of this case, instituted by plaintiff William Sours as the administrator of his brother’s estate. The plaintiff believes that the defendants violated Sours’s rights under the Fourteenth Amendment and state law. The defendants have now moved for summary judgment. Their motion is granted in part and denied in part.
BACKGROUND
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