Legal Opinion
Nancy Pacelli, as Independent Administrator of the Estate of Huron Loyd Cain v. Robert Devito
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 25, 1992No. 91-1086PublishedCited by 191 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
Huron Loyd Cain was trapped in a mental institution by two common features of bureaucracy: specialization and apathy. Although Cain was held 19 months after a psychiatrist concluded that he was no longer dangerous and ordered his discharge, each person he accuses has a plausible reply that he saw such a small portion of the picture that he cannot properly be called on to pay damages, and that his job description did not require him to learn more. Only one person knew the full truth: Cain himself, who was released promptly after he called the problem to the attention…
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