Margaret Starks v. St. Louis County, et al.

St. Louis, Missouri, personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued on a deliberate indifference constitutional violation theory.



Drexel Starks experienced heroin withdrawal while jailed at the St. Louis County Justice Center. He later died at the hospital. His mother, Margaret Starks, sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that jail nurses Reginald Tinoco and Debra

Tucker and correctional officer Cedric Ivy were deliberately indifferent to his serious medical need. She also sued nurse supervisors Rita Hendrix and Faye Crancer and St. Louis County for failure to train or supervise and the County for an unlawful policy, practice, or custom of denying detainees medical care.1

The district court granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment, holding that Margaret failed to establish a violation of Drexel’s constitutional rights. Reviewing de novo, we affirm. Jackson v. Buckman, 756 F.3d 1060, 1065 (8th Cir. 2014) (standard of review).



Affirmed