Legal Opinion
Magwood v. Giddings
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 14, 1996No. 93-CV-1302PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KING, Associate Judge:
On the evening of August 4, 1991, Janice Magwood was taken into custody and involuntarily transported to the emergency room of D.C. General Hospital by a mental health specialist employed by the District of Columbia, who applied for her admission to St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for observation and diagnosis as a suicide risk. Magwood appeals from the trial court’s dismissal of her claims arising from that incident filed against the appellees, Kenneth Freeman, Tyrone Gid-dings, and the District of Columbia (“District appellees”) for false imprisonment, intentional infliction…
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