RANDOLPH v. CERVANTES

No. 97-60035.

130 F.3d 727 (1997)

Blanche RANDOLPH, as Conservator of Deborah Randolph, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Al CERVANTES, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Employee of Pine Belt Mental Health Center; Mary Phillips, In Her Official Capacity as Employee of Pine Belt Mental Health Center; Charles Main, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Executive Director of Pine Belt Mental Health Center; Pine Belt Mental Health Center; James T. Crane, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Jack D. Triggs, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Greg Breland, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Joe B. Thompson, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Ray Humphreys, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Lela Buckley, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Alfred Lott, Individually and in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; Kathy Evans, Individually and in Her Official Capacity as Commissioner of Region Twelve Mental Health Commission; and Region Twelve Mental Health Commission, a Body Politic, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

December 22, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth R. Watkins, Gulfport, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Vicki Lynn Leggett, Patrick Holt Zachary, Zachary & Leggett, Hattiesburg, MS, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MAGILL, SMITH and DeMOSS, Circuit Judges.


MAGILL, Circuit Judge:

This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 DeShaney claim is on appeal from the district court's grant of summary judgment in favor of the state-actor defendants. The law being settled in this Circuit, we affirm.

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Pine Belt Mental Health Center (Pine Belt) serves patients located in Mississippi's Region XII, a geographic region including nine counties. In addition, Pine Belt owns and operates Pine Hill Apartments, an apartment complex...

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