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Qualified Immunity

A social worker who took a pretrial detainee off suicide watch before he died by suicide while being held in the Bell County Jail in Texas was improperly extended qualified immunity, the Fifth Circuit ruled.

NEW ORLEANS — A social worker who took a pretrial detainee off suicide watch before he died by suicide while being held in the Bell County Jail in Texas was improperly extended qualified immunity, the Fifth Circuit ruled

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