WALKER v. NORRIS

Nos. 89-5831, 89-6107.

917 F.2d 1449 (1990)

Jacqueline WALKER, Administratrix of the Estate of Jerry Fails, Plaintiff-Appellee and Cross-Appellant (89-6107), v. Steven NORRIS and Michael Dutton, Defendants-Appellants (89-5831) and Cross-Appellees, Jonathan House; Donald Ritz; and Donald Jordan, Defendants-Appellants (89-5831).

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided November 1, 1990.

Rehearing Denied December 20, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald W. McNutt (argued), Williams & Dinkins, Nashville, Tenn., Keith W. Veigas, Jr., Veigas & Cox, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff-appellee cross-appellant.

Steven E. Winn, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles W. Burson, Atty. Gen., Michael W. Catalano, Deputy Atty. Gen. (argued), Nashville, Tenn., for defendants-appellants cross-appellees.

Before KEITH and GUY, Circuit Judges, and ENSLEN, District Judge.


RALPH B. GUY, Jr., Circuit Judge.

In this action involving 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claims for eighth and fourteenth amendment substantive due process violations as well as a state law negligence claim stemming from the stabbing death of prison inmate Jerry Fails, the defendants appeal from a judgment entered on a jury verdict in favor of plaintiff Jacqueline Walker, the administratrix of Fails' estate. The plaintiff cross-appeals from an adverse judgment on the section...

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