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Fifth Circuit Upholds $2.85 Million Award in Suit over Jail Prisoner’s Death

Loaded on May 5, 2017 by Matthew Clarke published in Prison Legal News May, 2017, page 58
Filed under: Drug/Alcohol Withdrawal, Medical Neglect/Malpractice. Location: Texas.

by Matt Clarke

On November 29, 2016, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a jury award of $1.5 million for pain and suffering and $917,000 for wrongful death in a lawsuit brought by survivors of a prisoner who died after being held for four days in an …

 

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