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WILLIS v. BARKSDALE

No. 81-2051-G.

625 F.Supp. 411 (1985)

Kelly Jean WILLIS, Plaintiff, v. Gene BARKSDALE, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Tennessee, W.D.

December 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey Jones, James D. Kopernak, Memphis, Tenn., for plaintiff Kelly Jean Willis.

H. Wallace Maroney, Jr., Memphis, Tenn., for defendants Barksdale and Coop.

Carroll C. Johnson, Memphis, Tenn., for defendant Shelby County.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

GIBBONS, District Judge.

In this case plaintiff Kelly Jean Willis as next of kin seeks damages for the death of her brother Michael B. Lott, a pretrial detainee who died in the Shelby County Jail during the heat wave of 1980. Defendants in the case are Shelby County Sheriff Eugene Barksdale; William Coop, Chief Jail Administrator at the time of Lott's death; and Shelby County. The case was heard by the court without a jury. The court has...

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