R.J.D. v. Vaughan Clinic, P.C.

I respectfully dissent from that portion of the opinion affirming the summary judgment on the issue of false imprisonment. The majority holds, in effect, that a custodial parent has an absolute right to have a 17-year-old minor child admitted into a private psychiatric hospital against her will and without her consent. Such was not the law in this state, nor, to my knowledge, in any other state, until today. An understanding of the import of this decision requires a fuller exposition of the facts than has been provided to us by the majority.

While a student at Homewood High School in the fall…