from: the Metropolitan New-Enterprise
The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held yesterday that the County of Alameda might be liable to survivors of a man who died in custody in a jail, but restricted any potential recovery to damages based on pain and suffering of the decedent as a result of deliberate indifference to the involuntary weight loss he experienced, finding no liability for wrongful death. Only one member of a three-judge panel – Senior Judge Carlos Bea – agreed with the entirety of the memorandum opinion.
link to article: County Not Liable for Death of Inmate With Weight Loss (metnews.com)
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