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MILTIER v. BEORN

Nos. 89-2635, 89-2637.

896 F.2d 848 (1990)

Katherine MILTIER, Administratrix of the Estate of Gwendolyn Miltier, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Charles BEORN; Leon Dixon; Robert W. Fry; Reva H. Barker; Mary Spencer; Ann F. Downes; Shirley Burton; Ray Kessler; Edward W. Murray; John Doe, Warden, & other unknown named Wardens of Virginia Correctional Center for Women, individually and officially, Defendants-Appellees, and Kay Upton; Allyn R. Sielaff, Defendants. Katherine MILTIER, Administratrix of the Estate of Gwendolyn Miltier, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Shirley BURTON; Ann F. Downes, Defendants-Appellants, and Leon Dixon; Robert W. Fry; Reva H. Barker; Mary Spencer; Kay Upton; Ray Kessler; Edward W. Murray; Allyn R. Sielaff; John Doe, Warden, & other unknown named Wardens of Virginia Correctional Center for Women, individually and officially; Charles Beorn, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 20, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Michael Hanny (Susan C. Minkin, Christopher V. Tisi, and Michelle A. Parfitt, Ashcraft & Gerel, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellant.

Frank B. Miller, III (M. Pierce Rucker, John B. Catlett, Stacy P. Thompson, Sands, Anderson, Marks & Miller, on brief), Michael Paul Falzone (Paul A. Simpson, Brian K. Jackson, Hirschler, Fleischer, Weinberg, Cox & Allen, Robert S. Brewbaker, Jr., Brewster S. Rawls, Browder, Russell, Morris & Butcher, Rosewell Page, III, Mary M.H. Priddy, McGuire, Woods, Battle & Boothe, and D. Patrick Lacy, Jr., Kathleen S. Mehfoud, Hazel, Thomas, Fiske, Beckhorn and Hanes, P.C., Richmond, Va., on brief), for appellees.

Before HALL, PHILLIPS and CHAPMAN, Circuit Judges.

PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge:

Gwendolyn Miltier, an inmate at the Virginia Correctional Center for Women (VCCW), was found dead next to her bed in the prison clinic after having suffered an acute heart attack. Katherine Miltier (Miltier), administratrix of her daughter Gwendolyn's estate, brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action against defendant doctors, nurses, wardens, and prison administrators (collectively, defendants), asserting that defendants violated Gwendolyn...

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