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Parents of Jail Suicide Victim Have Familial Association Right

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that the parents of an arrestee, who committed suicide while in the Helena (Montana) city jail, could maintain a claim, under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, based upon a Fourteenth Amendment due process deprivation of their right to the companionship and ...

 

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