On March 6, 2012, the mother and minor children of a pre-trial detainee who died in jail from an infection filed this lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. The plaintiffs sued the County of Sutter under 42 U.S.C. § 1983; represented by private counsel, they asked the court for monetary relief. The plaintiffs claimed that the defendants violated their father's substantive due process rights and the Constitutional prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed the defendants' poor medical care for their father's life-threatening infection led to his preventable death.

After a series of motions to dismiss by the defendant and amended complaints filed by the plaintiffs, the parties reached a settlement agreement. On April 10, 2014, the plaintiffs filed a motion for approval of a settlement and for orders to deposit money into blocked accounts. The defendants agreed to pay the plaintiffs $824,999. On June 11, 2014, parties agreed to the dismissal of the case.

Jessica Kincaid - 10/08/2015


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