PETERSON v. WILLIE

No. 94-4608.

81 F.3d 1033 (1996)

Mariann PETERSON, as Guardian of Brian Peterson, Plaintiff-Appellant-Cross-Appellee, v. Richard P. WILLIE, individually and as Sheriff of Palm Beach County; Edwin E. Goodbread, Jr.; Earl S. Jackson; Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners; Burr Prentice; Gail Donald, individually and as Doctors and Nurses employed by Correctional Care, Incorporated and Emergency Medical Services Associates, Incorporated, Defendants, Correctional Care, Inc., a Florida Corporation and wholly-owned subsidiary of Emergency Medical Services Associates, Inc., a Florida Corporation; Emergency Medical Services Associates, Inc., a Florida Corporation; J. Clifford Findeiss, individually and as president of Correctional Care, Inc. and Emergency Medical Services Associates, Inc.; Lawrence Anthony, Dr.; Joyce Jopek-Peters, R.N.; and Mary Ann Irwin, R.N., individually and as a Deputy Sheriff and/or Corrections Officer of the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office and as a nurse employed by Correctional Care, Incorporated and Emergency Medical Services Associates, Incorporated, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

April 25, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara A. Heyer, Gold & Heyer, P.A., Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Wayne J. Miller, Birmingham, MI, for appellant.

Janis Brustares Keyser, Gay, Ramsey & Lewis, P.A., West Palm Beach, FL, for appellees.

Before COX, Circuit Judge, DYER, Senior Circuit Judge, and GOETTEL, Senior District Judge.


GOETTEL, Senior District Judge:

Plaintiff-appellant Brian Peterson ("Peterson") appeals from judgment entered on a jury verdict in the Southern District of Florida which did not find appellees Correctional Care, Inc., Emergency Medical Services Associates, Inc., J. Clifford Findeiss, Mary Ann Irwin, Dr. Lawrence Anthony, and Joyce Jopek-Peters (collectively "appellees") liable for injuries Peterson sustained while under appellees' care and supervision. Peterson argues...

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