Opinion
No. 09-10053 Summary Calendar.
October 7, 2009.
Thomas L. Cox, Jr., Sibley Gleitz Cox, Dallas, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.
Peter L. Harlan, District Attorney's Office, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Lower Docket Number 3:07-CV-867.
Before JOLLY, WIENER, and ELROD, Circuit Judges.
In May 2007, Plaintiffs-Appellants sued Dallas County, its Sheriff's Department, and its Sheriff following the death of decedent Trena Hooker-Murray in Parkland Hospital where she had been an inpatient from May 23, 2005 until her death on June 5, her hospital stay of approximately two weeks having followed an incarceration of five or six days in the Dallas County Jail. Plaintiffs-Appellants asserted claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Americans With Disabilities Act, and the Rehabilitation Act. Approximately a year and a half after suit was filed, the district court granted summary judgment that Plaintiffs-Appellants take nothing, and this appeal followed.
On appeal, Plaintiffs-Appellants contend that they presented genuine issues of material fact sufficient to preclude a determination at the summary judgment stage that none of the defendants nor any of their agents were deliberately indifferent to the serious medical needs of the decedent while she was in jail. Our review of the record on appeal and the applicable law as presented in the briefs of the parties and the Order of the district court convince us that summary judgment dismissing the claims of Plaintiffs-Appellants was providently granted for the extensive reasons cogently presented by the district court in its Order of December 19, 2008. Accordingly, the court's Final Judgment of that date is, in all respects,
AFFIRMED.