Paine v. Cason

In section 1983 action alleging that defendants (various jail officials and police officers) violated plaintiff-pre-trial detainee's rights when defendants ignored indications that plaintiff needed psychiatric care while booking plaintiff on charge and then released her in unfamiliar, high-crime area while she was in manic state, Dist. Ct. erred in denying certain defendants' request for qualified immunity on portion of plaintiff's claim asserting that plaintiff had right to continued detention in jail until plaintiff's medical needs had been resolved since no case law supported such right. However, certain defendants were not entitled to qualified immunity as to portion of plaintiff's claim alleging that defendants' release of plaintiff into high-crime area had augmented her danger, where plaintiff asserted that said defendants did nothing to mitigate said danger. Moreover, other defendants, who were involved in decision not to provide plaintiff with medical attention while she was in custody, were not entitled to qualified immunity at this stage of proceeding since plaintiff's failure to provide medical attention claim could only be resolved on merits.