MEAD v. PALMER

No. 14-1680.

794 F.3d 932 (2015)

Marvin Allen MEAD, Plaintiff-Appellee v. Director Charles PALMER, Director of the Iowa Department of Human Services, Defendant Jason Smith, Superintendent of CCUSO Unit Cherokee Mental Health Institute; Mary Benson, Medical Nurse/Medical Tech of CCUSO Unit Cherokee Mental Health Institute, Defendants-Appellants Brad Wittrock, Director of Security Operations; Bob Stout, Religious Coordinator/Chaplin, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: July 24, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela Ann Wingert , argued, Spirit Lake, IA, for Plaintiff-Appellee.

Gretchen Kraemer , AAG, argued, Des Moines, IA, for Defendants-Appellants.

Before BYE and SMITH, Circuit Judges, and SCHILTZ, District Judge.


In this interlocutory appeal, Director Jason Smith, M.D., and Nurse Mary Benson, both of Iowa's Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders (CCUSO) (collectively, "defendants"),2 appeal the district court's order denying them qualified immunity from damages in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 suit brought by...

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