003595P.pdf   08/14/2001  Joyce Hott  v.  Hennepin Cty., MN
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  00-3595
   District of Minnesota   
   Civil case - civil rights. Jail officials were not under any duty to 
   obtain plaintiff's deceased's medical records from outside the 
   jail in order to determine whether the deceased was a suicide 
   risk; based on the information provided by the deceased and 
   gained by their own observation of the deceased, jail officials 
   had no knowledge he presented a serious risk of suicide; 
   evidence produced by plaintiff was insufficient to support an 
   inference that suicide amounts to such a substantial risk to 
   general inmate safety that jailer's failure to conduct cell checks 
   according to prison policy amounted to deliberate indifference 
   to deceased's needs; the court erred, however, in granting 
   jailer a summary judgment on the state law negligence claim 
   concerning his failure to conduct cell checks.