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RYAN v. BURLINGTON COUNTY

Civ. A. No. 85-2002.

674 F.Supp. 464 (1987)

Timothy RYAN, Plaintiff, v. BURLINGTON COUNTY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. New Jersey, Civil Division.

November 9, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Slimm, Dash and Goldberg by Joseph Goldberg, Westmont, N.J., for plaintiff.

W. Cary Edwards, Atty. Gen. of N.J. by Douglass L. Derry, Deputy Atty. Gen., Trenton, N.J., for defendants William H. Fauver and Joseph G. Call.

Kummer, Knox & Naughton by Stephen R. Knox, Parsippany, N.J., for defendant Michael J. Hogan.

OPINION

BARRY, District Judge.

On October 3, 1983, plaintiff Timothy Ryan was a pretrial detainee in the Burlington County Jail.1 He was a healthy, fully functioning human being capable of the things human beings take for granted. He could walk, feed himself, go to the bathroom on his own, and make love. On October 4, 1983, Timothy Ryan was rendered quadriplegic. The person who caused this injury, Michael Scott, was Ryan's cellmate...

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