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Abstract: 

Our regular review of important court decisions includes two federal appellate cases and a case from Wyoming. In Leonard v. St. Charles County Police Department (8th Cir. 2023), the court ruled that a jail nurse had qualified immunity for not administering psychiatric medication to pretrial detainee placed in suicide-prevention unit; in Doyle v. Ritz (7th Cir. 2023), the court ruled that the treatment provided to an inmate for a recurring scalp wound was sufficient enough to preclude a claim for deliberate indifference by a third-party prison health provider; and Byrd v. State, the Supreme Court of Wyoming ruled that the federal Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act shields a State from suit and liability concerning the type of COVID-19 vaccine given to inmates.

Keywords: Psychiatric Medications and Suicide Liability; Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act

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