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Ninth Circuit Upholds Arizona Teenage Detainee Suicide Claim Dismissal

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment to Arizona jail officials related to a teenage detainee’s suicide. The court vacated the dismissal of plaintiff’s state law claims and remanded for reconsideration.

Seventeen-year-old Jasper Simmons was charged with molesting a 10-year-old girl and was ...

 

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