ESTATE OF BEAUFORD v. MESA COUNTY, COLORADO

No. 21-1010.

35 F.4th 1248 (2022)

ESTATE OF Tomas BEAUFORD; Tiffany Marsh, personally and as representative of the estate of Tomas Beauford, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MESA COUNTY, COLORADO; Correct Care Solutions, LLC; Correctional Healthcare Companies, Inc.; Correctional Healthcare Physicians, P.C.; Correctional Healthcare Management, Inc.; Sheriff Matt Lewis, in his official capacity; Deputy Peter M. Dalrymple; Deputy Richard D. Perkinson; Nurse Renee Workman; Nurse Velda Havens; Nurse Audra Keenan; Nurse Jeanne Annmarie Schans; Michael LeFebre, in his official and individual capacities; Dr. Kurt Holmes, in his official and individual capacities, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED May 25, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David A. Lane ( Darold W. Killmer , Michael Fairhurst , and Andy McNulty with him on the briefs), Killmer, Lane & Newman, LLP, Denver Colorado, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Jacob Z. Goldstein ( Eric P. Schoonveld , Theodore C. Hosna , and Casey Kannenberg with him on the brief), Hall Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC, Chicago, Illinois, for CHC Defendants-Appellees.

Andrew B. Clauss ( Chris W. Brophy with him on the brief), Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Denver, Colorado, for Mesa County Defendants-Appellees.

Before McHUGH, MURPHY, and ROSSMAN, Circuit Judges.


After midnight on April 16, 2014, Tomas Beauford suffered a fatal epileptic seizure in his cell while in pretrial custody at the Mesa County Detention Facility ("MCDF"). The administrator of Mr. Beauford's estate sued various Mesa County and medical defendants1 in federal district court in Colorado...

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