CLEVELAND v. BELL

No. 18-30968.

938 F.3d 672 (2019)

Paul A. CLEVELAND; Paris LeBlanc; Mindy Capello, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Lillian BELL, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed September 13, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franz Nicholas Borghardt , Borghardt Law Firm, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.

Arthur Howell Andrews , Parish Attorney's Office for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellant.

Before SOUTHWICK, WILLETT, and OLDHAM, Circuit Judges.


Paul Cleveland's survivors sued a prison nurse named Lillian Bell under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for allegedly violating his Fourteenth Amendment rights. The district court denied qualified immunity to Nurse Bell. We reverse.

I.

Paul Cleveland was seventy-two years old when he was detained at the East...

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