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161341P.pdf   03/07/2017  Dennis Ryan, Jr.  v.  Officer Mary Armstrong
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-1341
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
[PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Loken and Kelly, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Civil rights. The plaintiff estate's deceased died while in custody at the Stearns County Jail, and the estate brought this action for violation of the deceased's civil rights; the district court erred in granting defendants summary judgment on plaintiff's deliberate indifference claim, as a reasonable factfinder could conclude that the deceased was suffering from an obvious medical need and that the failure to speak with him or seek medical treatment was a clearly inadequate response that supports an inference of deliberate indifference constituting a violation of constitutional rights; the district court erred in finding that defendants Armstrong and Colluton were entitled to to qualified immunity given the factors supporting a finding of deliberate indifference and the case law which shows that it was clearly established at the time of the incident that a pretrial detainee like the deceased has a right to be free from deliberately indifferent denials of emergency medical care; defendants were entitled to summary judgment on the estate's excessive force claim as the evidence showed that none of the defendants' actions, either singly or in combination, amounted to an objectively unreasonable application of force; defendants' summary judgment on failure to train is reversed in light of the court's ruling on the deliberate indifference claim; dismissal of the trustee's state law claims is also reversed. Judge Loken, concurring in part and dissenting in part.