COLSON v. CITY OF ALCOA, TENNESSEE

Nos. 20-5585/21-5545.

37 F.4th 1182 (2022)

Annissa COLSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CITY OF ALCOA, TENNESSEE, Defendant, Keith Fletcher, individually and in his official capacity as Lieutenant of the Alcoa Police Department; Dustin Cook and Arik Wilson, individually and in their official capacities as Patrol Officers of the Alcoa Police Department, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: June 23, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Brian R. Bibb , WATSON, ROACH, BATSON ROWELL & LAUDERBACK, P.L.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Lance K. Baker , THE BAKER LAW FIRM, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee. ON BRIEF: Brian R. Bibb , Benjamin K. Lauderback , WATSON, ROACH, BATSON ROWELL & LAUDERBACK, P.L.C., Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellants. Lance K. Baker , THE BAKER LAW FIRM, Knoxville, Tennessee, for Appellee.

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


OPINION

Annissa Colson's knee was allegedly injured while she resisted arrest. She claims that the arresting officers failed to provide her sufficient medical care by first taking her to jail instead of a hospital following her injury, and then by relying on a jail nurse's medical opinion that the knee injury...

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