SANCHEZ v. YOUNG COUNTY, TEXAS

No. 16-10227.

866 F.3d 274 (2017)

Nichole SANCHEZ; Casy Simpson; Edward Laroy Simpson, II, Individually and as the Representative of the Estate of Diana Lynn Simpson, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. YOUNG COUNTY, TEXAS; Young County Sheriff's Department, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

FILED July 31, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph F. Cleveland, Jr. , Brackett & Ellis, P.C., Fort Worth, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Stephen Cass Weiland, Esq. , Squire Patton Boggs, L.L.P., Dylan Owen Drummond, Esq. , Gray Reed & McGraw, L.L.P., Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before JONES, BARKSDALE, and COSTA, Circuit Judges.


Plaintiff-appellants, the family of Diana Simpson, challenge the district court's summary judgment dismissing their § 1983 lawsuit claiming that Young County violated Mrs. Simpson's constitutional rights when she died in the county jail from a probable suicide-caused drug overdose the evening after she was arrested for public intoxication...

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