suicide-prevention

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
24A352 Coleman County, Texas v. Patsy K. Cope, et al. Fifth Circuit 2024-10-15 Presumed Complete 42-usc-1983 conditions-of-confinement eighth-amendment municipal-liability pre-trial-detainee suicide-prevention Whether a county jail can be held liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for a pre-trial detainee's suicide when the jail's suicide prevention policies were no…
21-783 Patsy K. Cope, et al. v. Leslie W. Cogdill, et al. Fifth Circuit 2021-11-24 Denied Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (13) civil-rights constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference due-process inadequate-medical-care jail-official pretrial-detainee pretrial-detainees qualified-immunity suicide-prevention suicide-risk Whether jail officials who are subjectively aware of a substantial risk that a pretrial detainee will attempt suicide and respond to the harm unreason…
21-235 Gary Heidel, et al. v. Anthony Mazzola, et al. Tenth Circuit 2021-08-17 Denied civil-rights due-process failure-to-enforce fourteenth-amendment kingsley-standard medical-treatment predictable-consequence pretrial-detainee recklessness suicide-prevention Whether jail officials violate a pretrial detainee's Fourteenth Amendment right to medical treatment by being reckless to, without actually knowing of…