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Nature of Suit Code: 440
Nature of Suit: Other Civil Rights
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS AUG 2 :1 1990 

R-OBER. T L. HOEc 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

THE ESTATE OF DAVID BORCHAK; ARLENE G. ) 

BORCHAK; HOLLI M. BORCHAK; NOEL M. ) 

BORCHAK, ) 

) 

Plaintiffs-Appellants, ) 

) 

v. ) 

) 

TOWN OF LIMON, ) 

) 

Defendant, ) 

) 

and ) 

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LEROY YOWELL, Sheriff of Lincoln ) 

County; THE BOARD· oF ·COUNTY ) 

COMMISSIONERS OF LINCOLN COUNTY, ) 

) 

Defendants-Appellees. ) 

ORDER AND JUDGMENT * 

Clerk 'KER 

No. 89-1221 

(D.C. No. 88-M-1567) 

(D. Colo. ) 

Before SEYMOUR, BRORBY, and EBEL, Circuit Judges . 

After examining the briefs and appellate record, this panel 

has determined unanimously that oral argument would not materially 

assist the determination of this appeal. See Fed. R. App. P. 

34(a); lOth Cir. R. 34.1.9. The case is therefore ordered 

submitted without oral argument. 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. lOth Cir. R. 

36.3. 

Appellate Case: 89-1221 Document: 01019384640 Date Filed: 08/29/1990 Page: 1 
Plaintiffs appeal from a district court order granting 

summary judgment for defendants in this combination civil rights 

and diversity tort action arising out of the suicide of David 

Borchak at the Lincoln County jail. 

Upon de novo consideration of the claims and arguments 

advanced herein, ~Abercrombie v. City of Catoosa, 896 F.2d 

1228, 1230 (lOth Cir. 1990), we cqncur in the disposition reached 

below, primarily for the reasons stated by the district court. 

Although, as plaintiffs point out, the district court's memorandum 

opinion fails to acknowledge plaintiffs' allegations regarding 

bail delay as constituting a separate, autonomous claim for (at 

least nominal) relief not dependent upon any causal relationship 

with decedent's death, such a claim would necessarily fail in any 

event. Defendants' compliance with the state court's eight-hour 

detention order simply does not provide the basis for an 

actionable claim under the circumstances of this case. 

The judgment of the United States District Court for the 

District of Colorado is AFFIRMED. Defendants-appellees' motion to 

strike appendices submitted by plaintiffs is DENIED as moot. 

ENTERED FOR THE COURT 

PER CURIAM 

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