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Wednesday, April 23, 2025

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Trial for jail nurses

SHREVEPORT, La. — A Louisiana federal judge ruled that two nurses employed by a parish sheriff’s office must face trial on the Fourteenth Amendment inadequate medical care claims brought by the parents of a man who died from head and neck injuries and mixed drug intoxication five days after he was arrested for possessing 202 bars of Xanax.

Read the ruling here.

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