Estate of Carter v. City of Detroit.U.S. Appeals Court MEDICAL CARE Estate of Carter v. City of Detroit, 408 F.3d 305 (6th Cir. 2005). The estate of a detainee de·tain·ee n. A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee. Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody political detainee who died while in custody brought a state court [section] 1983 action that was removed to federal court. The district court denied a police officer's motion for summary judgment motion for summary judgment n. a written request for a judgment in the moving party's favor before a lawsuit goes to trial and based on recorded (testimony outside court) affidavits (or declarations under penalty of perjury), depositions, admissions of fact, answers and the officer appealed. The appeals court affirmed af·firm v. af·firmed, af·firm·ing, af·firms v.tr. 1. To declare positively or firmly; maintain to be true. 2. To support or uphold the validity of; confirm. v.intr. , finding that summary judgment was precluded by genuine issues of material fact as to whether the officer was deliberately indifferent to the detainee's serious medical needs. The detainee suffered a heart attack while in custody and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. Shortly after the detainee was booked she told the officer that she was having chest pains and needed to go to the hospital, and that she had not taken her heart medicine for three days. Other detainees Person in the custody of the US Armed Forces who has not been classified as an enemy prisoner of war (article 4, Geneva Convention of 1949 Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (GPW)), retained personnel (article 33, GPW), or civilian internee (article 78, Geneva Convention). testified that the detainee cried loudly for help and continued to complain that her chest hurt for several hours before another officer called for a car to take her to the hospital. (Detroit Police Department The Detroit Police Department serves the city of Detroit, Michigan. The department was founded in 1865 to serve the city's growing population. The department is broken into 6 districts, the central, southwestern, northeastern, western, eastern, and northwestern. , Michigan) |
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