LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — An appeals court in Arkansas upheld a ruling in favor of a correctional officer who stopped at Sonic for a hamburger while transporting a pregnant inmate to the hospital for observation. At the hospital, the inmate vomited blood and delivered twins following an emergency C-section; one child died, so the inmate sued for wrongful death and negligence. Sovereign immunity protects the officer because the evidence does not indicate that she was transporting a patient with a serious medical need.
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