CRANE v. UTAH DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS

No. 20-4032.

15 F.4th 1296 (2021)

Janet CRANE, as Administrator of Brock Tucker's Estate, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UTAH DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; Alfred Bigelow, Warden of the Central Utah Correctional Facility; Richard Garden, Director of the Clinical Services Bureau for the Utah Department of Corrections; Don Taylor, Inmate Disciplinary Officer at the Central Utah Correctional Facility; FNU Cox, Correctional Officer at Central Utah Correctional Facility; Brent Platt, Director of Utah Division of Child and Family Services; Universal Health Services Inc., a Private for Profit Corporation; Susan Burke, Defendants-Appellees, and Futures Through Choices, a private corporation; Jeremy Cottle, CEO and Managing Director of Provo Canyon School, Defendants. Professors and Practitioners of Psychiatry and Psychology; Martin F. Horn; Steve J. Martin; Richard Morgan; Dan Pacholke; Eldon Vail; Brooklyn Law School's Disability and Civil Rights Clinic; Civil Rights Education and Enforcement Center; Colorado Cross-disability Coalition; Disability Law Colorado; Disability Rights Advocates; Disability Rights New York; Highlands Law Firm; Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP; Law Office of Sarah Morris, LLC, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Filed October 21, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel Weiss , Rights Behind Bars, Washington, DC ( Randall W. Richards , Richards & Brown PC, Clearfield, Utah, with him on the briefs), argued for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Joshua D. Davidson , Assistant Utah Solicitor General, Utah Attorney General's Office, Salt Lake City, Utah, argued for Defendants-Appellees.

Before HOLMES, BACHARACH, and McHUGH, Circuit Judges.


This is an appeal from the dismissal of a suit brought by the estate of a mentally ill and intellectually disabled prisoner who committed suicide while in Utah Department of Corrections ("UDC") custody. Brock Tucker was seventeen when he was imprisoned at the Central Utah Correctional Facility ("CUCF"). His incarceration followed...

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