TEASLEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 79-1360.

662 F.2d 787 (1980)

Virginia E. TEASLEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided December 24, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Fleischer, Washington, D. C., with whom Richard S. T. Marsh, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Ann O'Regan Keary, West Roxbury, Mass., Staff Atty., Office of Legal Advisor, Saint Elizabeths Hospital with whom Carl S. Rauh,* U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Robert M. Werdig, Jr., and Norman M. Monhait, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROBB, WILKEY and WALD, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge ROBB.

ROBB, Circuit Judge:

This action began in the District Court pursuant to the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. §§ 1346(b) and 2671-2680. The complaint sought damages for personal injuries sustained by the plaintiff Teasley when she was assaulted, robbed, raped and sodomized by one Clarence Neverson. The plaintiff's case was that in prosecuting a petition for judicial hospitalization of Neverson...

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