· 11/12/1986
White v. Town of Seekon
Citations
- 499 N.E.2d 842
- 23 Mass. App. Ct. 139
- 1986 Mass. App. LEXIS 1870
How courts have described this case
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- holding that the plaintiff was entitled to a jury trial about whether a police department knew or should have known that a prisoner was a suicide risk and concluding that summary judgment is especially disfavored when knowledge is at issue
- holding that the plaintiff was entitled to a jury trial about whether a police department knew or should have known that a prisoner was a suicide risk and concluding that summary judgment is especially disfavored when knowledge is at issue
- “[s]ummary judgment is especially disfavored where [as here] knowledge or state of mind is at issue”
- recommendations of Special Commission to Investigate Suicide in Municipal Detention Centers incorporated in G. L. c. 40, § 36B
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Judges: Greaney, Quirico, Grant
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