Legal Opinion
Wayne Kennedy and Alice Kennedy v. C. Keith Schafer John Twiehaus Robert O. Muether Jacqueline Howard Kelly Shaw and Peggy J. Dunlap
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided January 31, 1996No. 95-1531EMPublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICHARD S. ARNOLD, Chief Judge.
Wayne and Alice Kennedy brought this suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against officials of the Missouri Department of Mental Health and Hawthorn Children's Psychiatric Hospital, a state facility. They allege that defendants deprived their 15-year-old daughter, Kathleen, of her due-process right to a safe and humane environment while she was a patient at Hawthorn. That deprivation, they assert, led to Kathleen’s suicide. The District Court granted the defendant’s motion for summary judgment, holding that, because Kathleen was voluntarily admitted to Hawthorn, she had…
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