BANE v. SPENCER

No. 7022.

393 F.2d 108 (1968)

Bernard BANE, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. John R. SPENCER et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals First Circuit.

Decided April 12, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Bane, pro se.

Willie J. Davis, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom Elliot L. Richardson, Atty. Gen., was on brief, for Harry C. Solomon, appellee.

Robert G. Conley, Boston, Mass., with whom Jacob J. Locke and Ficksman & Conley, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Oscar Jacobson Raeder, appellee.

Edward J. Barshak, Boston, Mass., with whom Bertram A. Sugarman and Sugarman, Alberts, Rogers & Barshak, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Samuel Blacher, appellee.

Before ALDRICH, Chief Judge, McENTEE and COFFIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

These are two actions by a single plaintiff, Bane, asserting claims under the Civil Rights Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 1983 and 1985, arising out of his confinement in October and November 1963 for psychiatric examination pursuant to Mass. Gen. Laws c. 123 §§ 77 and 79. The defendants in one case are the police officer who initially took plaintiff to the police station and the certifying doctors, and in the other the state Commissioner of Mental...

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