SHERI TROZZI v. LAKE COUNTY, OHIO; DANIEL DUNLAP, DIANE SNOW, RYAN STAKICH, AND SCOTT CAPRON, IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND OFFICIAL CAPACITIES - Articles

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SHERI TROZZI v. LAKE COUNTY, OHIO; DANIEL DUNLAP, DIANE SNOW, RYAN STAKICH, AND SCOTT CAPRON, IN THEIR INDIVIDUAL AND OFFICIAL CAPACITIES

Posted by: Karen Belcher on Mar 29, 2022

Court: 6th Circuit Court (Published Opinions)

Attorneys 1: ON BRIEF: Lewis A. Zipkin, Kevin M. Gross, ZIPKIN WHITING CO. LPA, Beachwood, Ohio, for Appellant.

Attorneys 2: ON BRIEF: Frank H. Scialdone, Kathleen M. Minahan, MAZANEC, RASKIN AND RYDER CO., L.P.A., Cleveland, Ohio, for Appellees.

Judge(s): BATCHELDER, NALBANDIAN, and READLER, Circuit Judges

Court Appealed: United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio at Cleveland

CHAD A. READLER, Circuit Judge. While being held in a county detention center, Sheri Trozzi complained of abdominal pain to two correction officers and a jailhouse nurse. Those officials responded to Trozzi’s complaints but stopped short of calling 911. The next day, a jail doctor examined Trozzi and sent her to a hospital, where she ultimately underwent surgery.

Invoking 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Trozzi sued the two officers and the nurse. According to Trozzi, the three were deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment, due to their failure to call for emergency help after her initial complaints. The district court granted summary judgment to defendants. Examining Trozzi’s claims under the modified deliberate indifference standard announced in Brawner v. Scott County, we affirm.

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