Townsend

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN JOSE DIVISION 8 ANTONIO NEAL TOWNSEND, through Case No. 19-cv-00630-BLF his Conservator and Guardian ad Litem JACQUELINE TOWNSEND,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

Plaintiff, DENYING IN PART TELECARE’S

MOTION FOR SUMMARY

v. JUDGMENT; GRANTING CFMG’S

MOTION FOR SUMMARY

COUNTY OF SANTA CRUZ; SANTA JUDGMENT; AND GRANTING IN

CRUZ COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE; PART AND DENYING IN PART THE

SANTA CRUZ COUNTY HEALTH COUNTY’S MOTION FOR SUMMARY

SERVICES BEHAVIORAL HEALTH JUDGMENT

DIVISION; TELECARE CORPORATION; and CALIFORNIA FORENSIC MEDICAL [Re: ECF 90, 91, 94] GROUP, Defendants.

19 This action was filed in the wake of Plaintiff Antonio Neal Townsend’s attempted suicide while he was a detainee at the Santa Cruz County Jail (“the Jail”). Days before the tragic incident, an emergency room doctor placed Townsend on a 5150 hold1 and referred him to the Santa Cruz Behavioral Health…