Legal Opinion
Davis v. Rennie
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 5, 2001No. 99-1453PublishedCited by 121 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
Jason Davis, an involuntarily committed mental patient, brought suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act, and other statutes against multiple defendants after being punched repeatedly in the head during a physical restraint at Westborough State Hospital. A jury awarded Davis $100,000 in compensatory damages and $1.55 million in punitive damages, concluding that the appellants violated Davis’s substantive due process rights under the Fourteenth Amendment. Joyce Wiegers, the head nurse who ordered the restraint, and Leonard Fitzpatrick, Richard…
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