Lucas v. City of Long Beach

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \The general rule is that a jailer is not liable to a prisoner in his keeping for injuries resulting from the prisoner's own intentional conduct.\
• \Absent some possible special circumstances a jailer is under no duty to prevent the latter from taking his own life.\
• “[T]here is not a scintilla of evidence in the record indicating that his conduct was any different than one might expect of a person intoxicated on either drugs or alcohol.”
• no evidential foundation for jury's verdict that detainee's death was due to jailer's negligence because there was no evidence that he was in need of medical attention
• Cal. Gov't Code § 855.6 provided immunity to a prison official who failed to obtain a medical examination of an intoxicated prisoner who later committed suicide
• § 845.6 provides 10 absolute immunity “except for the situation of a failure to provide medical care [of] a prisoner in 11 obvious need of such care” (emphasis added)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).