Gulett v. Haines.U.S. District Court EMEGENCY CARE Gulett v. Haines, 229 F.Supp.2d 806 (S.D.Ohio 2002). A pretrial pre·tri·al n. A proceeding held before an official trial, especially to clarify points of law and facts. adj. 1. Of or relating to a pretrial. 2. detainee de·tain·ee n. A person held in custody or confinement: a political detainee. Noun 1. detainee - some held in custody political detainee brought an action against a sheriff, corrections officer The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , and a jail inmate asserting claims under [section]1981 and [section]1983. The detainee had been assaulted by other prisoners and alleged that he was not protected from harm and was denied adequate emergency medical care. The district court held that the jail's emergency medical care policy was not unconstitutional on its face because the policy accounted for any emergency and left medical decisions, subject to an obvious security concern, to a health care staff member. The court denied summary judgment to one corrections officer, finding it was prevented by genuine issues of material fact as to whether the officer knew that other prisoners were likely to assault the detainee and whether he was responsible for preventing an assault. (Montgomery County Montgomery County may refer to:
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