HYMAN v. LEWIS

No. 21-2607.

27 F.4th 1233 (2022)

Veronica HYMAN, Personal Representative of the Estate of Deandre Christopher Lipford, Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Clyde J. LEWIS, Officer; State of Michigan; Kenneth Romanowski, Warden; John Doe, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: March 8, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ON BRIEF: John C. Kaplansky , LAW OFFICE OF JOHN C. KAPLANSKY, PC, Bingham Farms, Michigan, Robert M. Sosin , ALSPECTOR, SOSIN & NOVECK, Bingham Farms, Michigan, for Appellant. Zachary A. Zurek , OFFICE OF THE MICHIGAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, Lansing, Michigan, for Appellee Lewis. Samuel Weiss , RIGHTS BEHIND BARS, Washington, D.C., Jennifer Wedekind , AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, Washington, D.C., Megha Ram , RODERICK & SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER, Washington, D.C., David M. Shapiro , RODERICK & SOLANGE MACARTHUR JUSTICE CENTER, Chicago, Illinois, for Amici Curiae.

Before: McKEAGUE, BUSH, and READLER, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Deandre Lipford died tragically after he overdosed while detained in the Detroit Detention Center. At the jail that night, Officer Clyde Lewis was in charge of making rounds, but he failed to physically enter the holding area to check on Lipford as required...

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