Goodman, et al. v. Kimbrough, et al., No. 12-10732 (11th Cir. 2013)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff, a 67-year-old man suffering from dementia and prone to disorientation and confusion, filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983 against defendants after he was severely beaten by his cellmate while detained at the County Jail. The court concluded that the district court did not err in granting defendants' motion for summary judgment where nothing in the record created a genuine issue of fact as to whether the prison officers were subjectively aware of a substantial risk of serious harm to plaintiff; the complaint failed to allege that the Sheriff's Department policy or custom actually caused plaintiff's injuries; and because plaintiff's principal claims fail, it followed that his wife's derivative loss of consortium claim must fail too. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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