U.S. district court: prisoner suicide; Dipace v. Goord.

• Position: Failure to Protect

Dipace v. Goord, 308 F.Supp.2d 274 (S.D.N.Y. 2004). The estate and survivors of a state inmate brought a [section] 1983 action alleging that corrections and mental health officials were deliberately indifferent to the inmate's serious mental illness, which resulted in his suicide. The district court held that corrections employees who failed to attempt to resuscitate the inmate did not violate any clearly established right of the inmate, and ruled that the employees were entitled to qualified immunity. The officer who first discovered the inmate...