McGOWAN v. CITY OF EUFALA

No. 04-7083.

472 F.3d 736 (2006)

Jean McGOWAN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF EUFALA, a municipal corporation, Mayor Billy Ray Day, in his official and individual capacities, and Chad French, in his individual and official capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 19, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

N. Kay Bridger-Riley, Bridger-Riley Bailey & Associates, P.C., Tulsa, Oklahoma for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Stephen C. Lewis, United States Attorney's Office, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before McCONNELL, ANDERSON, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.


TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.

A prisoner at the Eufala, Oklahoma city jail committed suicide while under Appellant Jean McGowan's supervision as jailer. McGowan was later suspended for thirty days without pay after a three-month investigation by the City and the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation concluded that she had failed to carry out her legal duty to conduct regular visual inspections of the prisoner, and that she falsified the written records of her inspections....

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