Free Answer to Amended Complaint - District Court of Arizona - Arizona

1 ANDREW P. THOMAS
. MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY
2
By: MARIA R. BRANDON
" 3 State Bar No. 004249
MICHAEL J. MASSEE
4 State Bar No. 015901
Deputy County Attorneys
5 MCAO Firm No. 00032000
6 CIVIL DIVISION
Security Center Building
7 222 North Central Avenue, Suite 1100
Phoenix, Arizona 85004-2206
8 Telephone (602) 506-8541
9 Attorneys for Maricopa County Defendants
10 IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
11 FOR THE DISTRICT OF ARIZONA
12 Robert? Krumlauf, NO. CV2004-0720-PHX-ROS (LOA)
13 Plaintiff,
14 v. ANSWER
15 Phoenix Police Department, et al.,
16 Defendants.
17 I
18 Defendant Maricopa County Sheriff’s Ofhce having been dismissed
19 without prejudice heretofore by this Court, Defendants Regina Mendoza, Juanita
20 Holmes, D.O. Nelson, Joseph Arpaio, Maricopa County Correctional Health
21 Services, and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, by and through
22 undersigned counsel, answer as follows:
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1 1. Defendants admit that this Court has jurisdiction.
2 2. Defendants deny that they acted with deliberate indifference towards
3 plaintiff’s serious medical needs, or in any way, acted, or failed to act, to violate
4 plaintiffs civil rights as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Defendants deny
5 that they violated plaintiff’s constitutional rights in any way whatsoever.
6 3. Defendants deny each and every allegation not heretofore admitted.
7 4. Defendants afHrmative|y allege that the medical care and treatment of
8 plaintiffimet all applicable medical standards. of careand did not cause injury to
9 plaintiff. , . V V .
10 5. Defendants afhrmatively allege that neither thelMaricopa County Board of
11 Supervisors nor Maricopa County Correctional Health Sen/ice are jural entities.
12 Being non-jural entities that are legally incapable of suing or being sued they
13 should be dismissed from this lawsuit forthwith. Correctional Health Services is
14 a department of Maricopa County. The policy-making authorities for Maricopa
15 County are the five individually-named Supervisors acting together.
16 AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES
17 Defendants allege all affirmative defenses listed in the Federal Rules of
18 Civil Procedure, Rule 8(D), as well as any other affirmative defenses that may
19 come to light during discovery, including:. failure to join responsible parties,
20 assumption of risk, insufficiency of service of process, lack of service, estoppel,
21 Iaches, statute of limitations, waiver, lack of respondeat superior, contributory
22 negligence, comparative negligence, non-parties at fault, statutory defense to
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1 punitive damages, and any other matter which constitutes an avoidance or
2 afHrmative defense.
3 RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED this 31 st day of January 2006.
4 ANDREW P. THOMAS
MARICOPA COUNTY ATTORNEY
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BY: s/Maria R. Brandon
7 MARIA R. BRANDON
MICHAEL J. MASSEE
8 » Deputy—County Attorneys,
Attorneys for Maricopa County
9 Defendants
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11 ORIGINAL ofthe foregoing E-FILED g » » · .
and copies MAILED this 31st day I I,
12 of January 2006 to:
13 Honorable Roslyn O. Silver
United States District Court Judge . V
14 Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, Suite 624
401 West Washington Street, SPC 59
15 Phoenix, AZ 85003
16 Honorable Lawrence O. Anderson
United States Magistrate Judge
17 Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Courthouse, Suite 322
401 West Washington Street, SPC 11
18 Phoenix, AZ 85003 I
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1 I hereby certify that on 1-31-06, I served the attached document by mail on the
following, who is not a registered participant of the CM/ECF System: ,
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3 Robert Krumlauf #66946
ASPC — Buckeye-BU
4 Barchey Unit
PO Box 3200
5 Buckeye, AZ 85326
Plaintiff Pro Per
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