Jones v. Sherry W

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT WESTERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK Rochelle M. Jones and James L. Thomas, Report and Recommendation Plaintiffs, 16-CV-234G v. Sherry W. et al., Defendants. I. INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND Plaintiff Rochelle M. Jones believes that defendants—a combination of her adult son, a crisis services social worker, and several Buffalo Police officers1—worked together to have her confined unlawfully in 2015 through an abuse of New York’s Mental Hygiene Law. Jones and her husband, James L. Thomas, filed their original complaint on March 21, 2016, alleging various civil-rights…