201842P.pdf   08/24/2021  Brenda Davis  v.  Michelle L. Munger
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  20-1842
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   U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri - St. Joseph   
   [PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender and Stras, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Plaintiffs alleged their son died from 
   complications brought on by defendants' failures to provide necessary 
   medications while he was incarcerated at the Buchanan County Jail and with 
   the Missouri Department of Corrections; defendants moved for summary 
   judgment and they appeal the district court's denial of their motions for 
   qualified immunity and official immunity; the court has found no firmly 
   rooted history of immunity for the private medical-services-providers, and 
   the purposes of qualified immunity do not, on balance favor extending 
   immunity; as a result, the medical doctor defendant and the three nurse 
   defendants, as employees of large firms systematically organized to 
   perform a major administrative task for profit, were not entitled to 
   assert the defense of qualified immunity; their appeal is dismissed for 
   lack of jurisdiction; similarly, this holding precludes immediate 
   appellate review of the appeals by defendants ACH and Corizon; defendants 
   Strong and Hovey, as supervisors of medical care, were not on notice of a 
   pattern of constitutional violations, nor was their failure to verify the 
   accuracy of ACH's reporting regarding grievances sufficient to create 
   Section 1983 liability; defendant Gross, who brought plaintiff's decedent 
   to the Jail was not deliberately indifferent to his medical needs as 
   plaintiffs failed to show he had subjective intent to cause harm or that 
   he could not reasonably believe that his response to booking officers was 
   not deliberately indifferent or reckless; defendant Gross was entitled to 
   official immunity on plaintiffs' wrongful death claim as his duty to 
   report information was discretionary;the jail's booking officer was not 
   entitled to official immunity for his actions in filling out the medical 
   section of the deceased's booking form because of his inconclusive 
   testimony on accessing prior medical records.