SINGLETARY v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 00-3579.

266 F.3d 186 (2001)

Dorothy SINGLETARY, individually, and as Administrator of the Estate of Edward Singletary, v. PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; S.C.I. Rockview Institution; Joseph Mazurkiewicz, Superintendent of Rockview; Several Unknown Corrections Officers, Dorothy Singletary, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

September 21, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wayne A. Rodney, (Argued), Rodney & Associates, Philadelphia, PA, Counsel for Appellant.

D. Michael Fisher, Attorney General, Gregory R. Neuhauser, (Argued), Senior Deputy Attorney General, Calvin R. Koons, Senior Deputy Attorney General, John G. Knorr, III, Chief Deputy Attorney General Chief, Appellate Litigation Section, Office of Attorney General, Harrisburg, PA, Counsel for Appellees.

Before BECKER, Chief Judge, McKEE, Circuit Judges, and POLLAK, District Judge.


OPINION OF THE COURT

BECKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal from a grant of summary judgment for defendants Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC), State Correctional Institute at Rockview (SCI-Rockview), and former Superintendent of SCI-Rockview, Joseph Mazurkiewicz, in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights lawsuit brought against them by Dorothy Singletary, the mother of Edward Singletary, a prisoner who committed suicide while incarcerated at Rockview...

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