Legal Opinion
Carlos M. Villanova, Sr. v. Richard S. Abrams, Kris Lall, John Doe, Eduardo MacHado Nicosia Perez, and Philip Welches
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 13, 1992No. 89-3146PublishedCited by 122 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
Twice in 1987 Carlos Villanova was civilly committed against his will to Chicago Read Mental Health Center, a state facility. Claiming that the commitment was an unreasonable seizure of his person and therefore violated his rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment and that the failure to release him within 24 hours, as required by state law, violated his Fourteenth Amendment right to due process of law, he brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the psychiatrists employed by Chicago Read and by another public body, the Psychiatric Institute of Cook…
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