U.S. District Court: POLICY/PROCEDURES.

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Estate of Cills v. Kaftan 105 F.Supp.2d 391 (D.N.J. 2000). The estate of a county jail inmate who committed suicide in his cell sued the county and officials under [sections] 1983. The district court held that lower level jail personnel who removed the inmate from a suicide watch were not liable because they acted on statements of a nursing supervisor and social worker that the inmate was no longer suicidal. But the court denied summary judgment for the remaining defendants finding it was...