HARE v. CITY OF CORINTH, MISS.

No. 96-60872.

135 F.3d 320 (1998)

Richard HARE, Natural Father and next friend of Haley Hare, a minor; Richard Hare, Individually and in his official capacity as administrator of the estate of Tina Hare, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CITY OF CORINTH, MS; et al., Defendants, Fred Johnson, Individually and in his official capacity; Billy Clyde Burns, Captain, Individually and in his official capacity; James Damons, Captain, Individually and in his official capacity; Brenda Moore, Individually and in her official capacity, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

February 12, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Dale Michael, Langston, Langston, Michael & Bowen, Booneville, MS, Christi Rena McCoy, Langston, Langston, Michael & Bowen, Iuka, MS, for Richard Hare.

Gary Erwin Friedman, Luther T. Munford, Rebecca Lynn Wiggins, Susan F. Desmond, Phelps Dunbar, Jackson, MS, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before JOLLY, DAVIS and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.


RHESA HAWKINS BARKSDALE, Circuit Judge:

Concerning the suicide of pretrial detainee Tina Hare in July 1989, at issue in this interlocutory appeal on qualified immunity is whether, by not preventing the suicide, Appellants acted objectively unreasonably in the light of then clearly established law. On remand from a similar interlocutory appeal, decided by our en banc court, Hare v. City of Corinth, 74 F.3d 633 (5th Cir.1996...

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