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Ninth Circuit Reverses Summary Judgment in Favor of Jail Where Three Detainees Died
Loaded on Dec. 7, 2018
by Christopher Zoukis
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2018, page 49
Filed under:
Summary Judgment,
Wrongful Death,
42 U.S. Code § 1983, civil action for deprivation of rights.
Location:
Washington.
by Christopher Zoukis
In an unpublished June 7, 2018 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit partially reversed a district court’s ruling that Cowlitz County, Washington was entitled to summary judgment in a case that alleged county jail officials violated the civil rights of three detainees who ...
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