Strong v. Wisconsin

OPINION and ORDER

BARBARA B. CRABB, District Judge.

Plaintiff Dennis Strong was an involuntarily committed patient at the Mendota Mental Health Institute in Madison, Wisconsin. In this suit brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law, plaintiff contends that staff at the institute subjected him to a litany of sexual abuse, harassment and retaliation. The parties’ cross motions for summary judgment are ripe for review.

The focal point of the case is plaintiffs claim that defendant Kelly Vítense, a “resident care technician” at the institute, sexually abused him for a period of six weeks in the…