Sisneros v. Office of Pueblo County Sheriff

FILED
United States Court of Appeals
Tenth Circuit
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS
May 22, 2012
TENTH CIRCUIT Elisabeth A. Shumaker
Clerk of Court

GEORGE SISNEROS,

Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.

OFFICE OF PUEBLO COUNTY
SHERIFF; KIRK TAYLOR, Pueblo
County Sheriff; PUEBLO COUNTY
SHERIFF’S DETENTION CENTER,
John and Jane Doe deputies and No. 11-1312
employees (to be later specifically (D.C. No. 1:09-CV-01646-PAB-MJW)
identified) of Pueblo County Sheriff (D. Colo.)
and Detention Center; JOHN/JANE
DOE, physicians and medical
treatment providers (to be later
specifically identified) at Pueblo
County Sheriff’s Detention Center;
CITY OF PUEBLO; JAMES W.
BILLINGS, JR., Chief of Police of
Pueblo; RONALD M. ORESKOVICH,
Officer,

Defendants-Appellees.

ORDER AND JUDGMENT *

Before TYMKOVICH, BALDOCK, and GORSUCH, Circuit Judges.

*
This order and judgment is not binding precedent except under the
doctrines of law of the case, res judicata and collateral estoppel. It may be cited,
however, for its persuasive value consistent with Fed. R. App. P. 32.1 and 10th
Cir. R. 32.1.
 Before us is George Sisneros’s appeal from a grant of qualified immunity to

Officer Ronald Oreskovich and Sheriff Kirk Taylor, as well as the district court’s

denial of Mr. Sisneros’s motion for leave to amend his complaint. The injuries

Mr. Sisneros suffered are serious and saddening. But the district court thoroughly

and carefully surveyed the relevant facts and law in four separate orders spanning

more than forty pages before concluding that governing precedent required it first

to grant qualified immunity and then to dismiss the case. After our own

independent and searching review of the briefs and record in this case, we are

able to discern no reversible error in the district court’s analysis. Neither are we

able to see anything we might usefully say that has not been said already.

Accordingly, we affirm for substantially the reasons the district court provided in

its extensive opinions.

ENTERED FOR THE COURT

Neil M. Gorsuch
Circuit Judge

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