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IHS CEDARS TREATMENT CTR OF DESOTO, TEXAS, INC. v. MASON

No. 01-0926.

143 S.W.3d 794 (2004)

IHS CEDARS TREATMENT CENTER OF DeSOTO, TEXAS, INC., The Cedars Mental Health Center Innovative Healthcare Systems, Inc., Teofilo Moses V. Ramos, Jr., M.D., and Sandra J. Duryea Marx, R.N., Petitioners, v. Jodi Marie MASON, Individually and as Next Friend of Ashley Ladon Mansfield, a Minor, and as Next Friend of Courtney Marie Mason, a Minor, and Karen Rudd, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided June 18, 2004.

Rehearing Denied September 24, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew A. Bergman, Bergman Yonks & Stein, Dallas, Michael Lawrence Cronig, Austin, for Party In Interest.

Wendy Ann McMillon, Cowles & Thompson, Dallas, for other interested party.

Darrell G-M Noga, Roberts & Smaby, PC, Michelle E. Robberson, Cooper & Scully, P.C., Matthew Roy Scott, Bell Nunnally & Martin LLP, Sidney L. Murphy, Law Office of Joel J. Steed, Dallas, Michael C. Freden, Hall & Freden, Fort Worth, David C. McCue, Lawson Fields McCue Lee & Campbell, Addison, and Stephanie S. Bascon, Reagan Burrus Dierksen Lamon & Blutzer, PLLC, New Braunfels, Andrea M. Kuntzman, Gregory J. Lensing, Alan L. Campbell, and Charles T. Frazier Jr., Cowles & Thompson, P.C., Kevin E. Oliver, Cooper & Scully, Dallas, for Petitioner.

Tony D. Crabtree, Randall R. Moore, Hyatt Crabtree & Moore, Charles W. McGarry, Law Office of Charles McGarry, Dallas, Steven J. Williams, Steven J. Williams, P.C., Irving, for Respondent.

Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court.

In this case, we again consider the limits of the causal nexus between conduct and harm that is necessary to support liability in tort.

Jodi Marie Mason voluntarily entered a mental health care facility seeking treatment for depression. Three weeks later, Mason's physician discharged her at her request. A little over a day after Mason's discharge, she was severely injured while a passenger in a single...

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