Legal Opinion
Kinsey v. City of New York
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided July 5, 2016No. 1664 306534/09PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, Bronx County (Alison Y. Tuitt, J.), entered May 21, 2015, which granted defendants’ motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
New York City police officers and emergency medical technicians (EMTs) responded to a 911 call regarding plaintiff, who suffered from bipolar disorder. When they arrived, plaintiff appeared calm, and wanted help. The police convinced plaintiff to enter an ambulance, but after he was seated and his vital signs were taken, he opened the ambulance door, ran up five flights of stairs of a nearby building…
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