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PRICE v. SHEPPARD

No. 45588.

239 N.W.2d 905 (1976)

Willa Mae PRICE, Individually, and as Mother and Natural Guardian of Dwight Price, Appellant, v. Charles G. SHEPPARD, et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 20, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Berde, Leonard & Weinblatt, and Alan W. Weinblatt, St. Paul, for appellant.

Warren Spannaus, Atty. Gen., Peter W. Sipkins, Sol. Gen., Thomas L. Fabel, Deputy Atty. Gen., Thomas H. Jensen, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., St. Paul, for respondents.

Randall D. B. Tigue, Benjamin S. Houge and Willard B. Crowley, Jr., Minn. Civ. Liberties Union, seeking rev., for amicus curiae.

Considered and decided by the court en banc.

YETKA, Justice.

This appeal from a summary judgment entered in the Ramsey County District Court involves an action against the medical director of the Minnesota Security Hospital at St. Peter, Dr. Charles G. Sheppard, for (1) assault and battery, and (2) violation of plaintiff Dwight Price's civil rights under 42 U.S.C.A. § 1983.1 The claims arise out of the administration of a series of 20 electroshock treatments, given against the...

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