Wever v. Lincoln County, Nebraska.U.S. Appeals Court SUICIDE Wever v. Lincoln County, Nebraska Lincoln County is a county located in the U.S. state of Nebraska. As of 2000, the population was 34,632. Its county seat is North Platte6. Despite what the county's name might seem to imply, the state capital city of Lincoln is not located in or near Lincoln County. , 388 F.3d 601 (8th Cir. 2004). A personal representative brought a civil rights action against a county and county sheriff alleging that an arrestee's Fourteenth Amendment Fourteenth Amendment, addition to the U.S. Constitution, adopted 1868. The amendment comprises five sections. Section 1 Section 1 of the amendment declares that all persons born or naturalized in the United States are American citizens and citizens rights were violated. The district court denied the sheriff'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 sheriff appealed. The appeals court affirmed. The court held that the arrestee ARRESTEE, law of Scotland. He in whose hands a debt, or property in his possession, has been arrested by a regular arrestment. If, in contempt of the arrestment, he shall make payment of the sum, or deliver the goods arrested to the common debtor, he is not only liable criminally for had a clearly established Fourteenth Amendment right to be protected from the known risks of suicide, and two prior suicides in the county jail should have put the sheriff on notice that his suicide prevention training needed revision. The court held that the representative stated a supervisory liability claim under the due process clause, noting that a supervisor may be held liable under [section] 1983 if a failure to properly supervise and train an employee causes a deprivation of constitutional rights. (Lincoln County Jail, Nebraska) |
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