Snyder v. Albany Medical Center Hospital

Appeal from that part of an order of the Supreme Court (Harris, J.), entered July 29, 1993 in Albany County, which denied defendant’s motion for summary judgment dismissing plaintiff’s fifth cause of action.

In a complaint asserting several causes of action, plaintiff charges that defendant, a private hospital, through its employees, acted tortiously and in violation of his civil rights when, shortly after his arrival at defendant’s emergency room in February 1979, plaintiff was admitted to its mental health unit on an involuntary and emergency basis, and was thereafter placed in seclusion, in…