Jail Suicide Claim Denied: Wrongly Decided, Finds Cohen
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 19, Number 05, January/February 2018 , pp.69-69(1)
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Abstract:
The deliberate indifference requirement attached to plaintiffs’ efforts to sue in federal court regarding a custodial suicide often proves to be an insurmountable obstacle. Many decisions turn on whether there was actual knowledge of a high risk of suicide and a failure to then act preventively. In other cases, including Salter v. Mitchell, 2017 WL 4457137 (11th Cir.), the issue is not actual knowledge of risk but the action taken in light of such risk.Keywords: Deliberate Indifference Standard
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