Author Topic: The debate over high summer temperatures in TDCJ prisons (Read 982 times)

sunrayswench · « **on:** July 26, 2014, 08:19:31 am »

An interesting twist in the fight to hold TDCJ and its employees accountable for alleged heat-related deaths of inmates. From the TexasLawyer.com:

Is Qualified Immunity for TDCJ Officials Vulnerable?
On behalf of Texas prison officials Brad Livingston, Rick Thaler and William Stephens, the Office of the Texas Attorney General filed July 17 a motion for reconsideration of an order a federal judge issued one day earlier. The judge's order deferred a ruling on whether they could use qualified immunity as an argument to dismiss a prison wrongful death case filed against them.

Read more:
http://www.texaslawyer.com/home/id=1202664505410/Is-Qualified-Immunity-for-TDCJ-Officials-Vulnerable?mcode=1202616608548&curindex=4&slreturn=20140626091547

Author Topic: The debate over high summer temperatures in TDCJ prisons (Read 982 times)

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