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201821P.pdf 08/19/2021 Leroy Leftwich v. County of Dakota
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 20-1821
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota
[PUBLISHED] [Loken, Author, with Colloton and Benton, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Civil rights. In this case where plaintiff's decedent
committed suicide while detained at the Dakota County Jail, the
individually-named defendants did not have actual knowledge of a risk of
suicide and were not deliberately indifferent to such a risk; as a result,
there was no constitutional violation, and the individual defendants, as
well as the City and County, were entitled to summary judgment on the
Section 1983 claims; the district court did not err in determining
defendants Wegner and Swanson had public official immunity for plaintiff's
Minnesota wrongful death claims as they were performing discretionary
duties; the County was, as a result, entitled to vicarious official
immunity; the County is entitled to public entity or statutory immunity
because the County's decision to have a mental health exam performed
within 72 rather than 24 hours of incarceration is a policy making and not
an operational government decision; the district court did not abuse its
substantial discretion by denying plaintiff's motions to amend the
scheduling order and file an amended complaint after the deadlines had
passed.