Legal Opinion
Ralph Walters v. Western State Hospital, Ft. Supply, Oklahoma, and Patrick W. Dudley, M.D., and E.B. Lasmarias, M.D.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided December 29, 1988No. 86-2811PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOGAN, Circuit Judge.
Defendants Patrick W. Dudley and E.B. Lasmarias appeal the denial of their motion for summary judgment based on the defense of qualified immunity. 1 This suit arose out of plaintiff Ralph Walters’ involuntary admission to Western State Hospital (Western), an Oklahoma mental institution at which Dudley and Lasmarias are employed as physicians. Walters was admitted under an Oklahoma law permitting the emergency detention of people in need of medical treatment. Walters brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 alleging and adducing evidence to the effect, inter alia, that he was…
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