SCHEURMANN v. FOTI

Nos. 2004-CA-0694 to 2004-CA-0696.

894 So.2d 1199 (2005)

Dwayne SCHEURMANN v. Charles FOTI, Jr., Individually and in His Official Capacity as Criminal Sheriff for Orleans Parish. Peter Hansche v. Charles C. Foti, Jr., In His Official Capacity as Criminal Sheriff of Orleans Parish, Deputy Mitchell, and Deputy Codloell. Patricia Kappes Panter v. Derek Pickering, and Charles C. Foti, Jr., Criminal Sheriff for the Parish of Orleans, John Netto, Henry Magee, and Christian Lang.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

February 2, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Raymond C. Burkart, Jr., New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant.

T. Allen Usry, Lambert J. Hassinger, Jr., John F. Weeks II, Usry, Weeks & Matthews, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant/Appellee.

(Court composed of Chief Judge JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Judge MICHAEL E. KIRBY and Judge MAX N. TOBIAS, JR.)


JOAN BERNARD ARMSTRONG, Chief Judge.

In this personal injury case, Patricia Kappes Panter, a New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) officer, sued Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff Charles C. Foti, Jr., and three sheriff's deputies, John Netto, Henry Magee and Christian Lang, for damages sustained when she was attacked by prisoner and co-defendant Derek Pickering while Mr. Pickering was in the sheriff's custody.1

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