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Psychologist Not Qualifiedly Immune in Prisoner Suicide Suit
Loaded on May 15, 2003
by John E Dannenberg
published in Prison Legal News
May, 2003, page 23
by John E. Dannenberg
Filed under:
Qualified Immunity,
Supervisory Liability,
Wrongful Death,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Failure to Treat (Mental Illness),
Suicides.
Location:
Michigan.
The Sixth Circuit US Court of Appeals ruled that a prison psychologist's awareness of a prisoner's potential for suicide was sufficient to defeat the psychologist's qualified immunity defense in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful death civil rights action brought by the prisoner's estate.
Michigan state …
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