Legal Opinion
Gifford v. Westwood Lodge Corp.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided May 18, 1987PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
This appeal concerns the dismissal of the plaintiff’s second action concerning her forty-nine day, involuntary hospitalization at Westwood Lodge in 1983. Two orders are appealed from. One is a judgment dismissing the second action on the ground of collateral estoppel. The second is a denial of a motion for reconsideration of that judgment.
*921 The Earlier Action.
In 1984, the plaintiff, proceeding pro se, filed suit against Drs. Reimherr and Rafferty, the psychiatrist and psychologist in charge of her care at the Lodge. She alleged that she had been “forcibly injected with a shot of Haldol . . .…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Community National Bank v. DawesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
- Berube v. McKesson Wine & Spirits Co.Massachusetts Appeals Court · 1979
- Fidler v. E. M. Parker Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1985
- Home Owners Federal Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Northwestern Fire & Marine InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1968
- Chuck "c.o." Beshear v. Clara Weinzapfel and Esther Weinzapfel, D/B/A Weinzapfel TavernCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1973
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Chu Tai v. City of BostonMassachusetts Appeals Court · 1998
- Turesky v. CarpMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1993
- Zisler v. AyanMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1992
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- Fidelity Trust Co. v. BrennanMassachusetts District Court, Appellate Division · 1993
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