COOPER v. DYKE

Nos. 86-1562(L), 86-1654.

814 F.2d 941 (1987)

Paul Anthony COOPER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. S. DYKE, Officer; J.R. Markert, Officer; C. Morseberger, Officer, Defendants-Appellants. (Two Cases)

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Austin, Asst. Co. Atty. (Malcolm F. Spicer, Jr., Co. Atty., Towson, Md., on brief) for appellants.

Mark S. Dachille (Mark H. Kolman, Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, Baltimore, Md., on brief) for appellee.

Before WINTER, Chief Judge, PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge, and MERHIGE, Senior United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, sitting by designation.


HARRISON L. WINTER, Chief Judge:

Plaintiff Paul Anthony Cooper sued Baltimore County Police Officers Dyke, Markert and Morseberger for their alleged deliberate indifference to plaintiff's serious medical needs, in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, and for the pendant state claims of false arrest and negligent provision of medical care. The district court granted defendants' motion for directed verdict on the negligence count, but submitted the other two causes of...

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