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WATKINS v. ROCHE

Civ. A. No. CV 181-59.

560 F.Supp. 416 (1983)

William Mark WATKINS, Plaintiff, v. W.P. ROCHE, Jr., M.D., W. Douglas Skelton, M.D., Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources of the State of Georgia, and his Successors in Office; Mickey M. Crouch, M.D. and Douglas Lee Smith, M.D., Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. Georgia, Augusta Division.

March 17, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Shepard, Augusta, Ga., Kenneth R. Fielder, Cochran, Ga., for plaintiff.

Vivian Davidson Egan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Carol Atha Cosgrove, Atlanta, Ga., Wilson R. Smith, Lyons, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

BOWEN, District Judge.

The case before the Court, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983, 1985(3)1 and 1988, involves the alleged unconstitutional admission, detention and treatment of the plaintiff in Georgia Regional Hospital (Regional) at Augusta, Georgia, a state mental institution. Earlier this court dismissed defendant W.P. Roche, Jr. finding that Roche's conduct did...

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