BECK v. KANSAS UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRY FOUNDATION

Civ. A. Nos. 83-2094, 83-2095.

580 F.Supp. 527 (1984)

Rodney D. BECK, et al., Plaintiffs, v. KANSAS UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRY FOUNDATION, et al., Defendants. Myrtle A. WILLIAMS, et al., Plaintiffs, v. KANSAS UNIVERSITY PSYCHIATRY FOUNDATION, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Kansas.

February 10, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Shamberg, Lynn R. Johnson, Gerald T. Elliott, Ruth M. Benien, Shamberg, Johnson, Bergman & Goldman, Shawnee Mission, Kan., for plaintiffs.

Steven L. Ruddick, John C. McFadden, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., Kansas City, Kan., for the State of Kan.

Bryan E. Nelson, Ronald W. Nelson, Nina R. Schloesser, Alder, Nelson & McKenna, Overland Park, Kan., Charles E. Simmons, Chief, Bernard J. Dunn, Kansas Dept. of Corrections, Legal Div., Robert T. Stephan, Kansas Atty. Gen., Leslie A. Kulick, Bruce E. Miller, Asst. Attys. Gen., Topeka, Kan., D. Gary Hunter, Cooke, Ballweg, Borth, Hunter & Simpson, Prairie Village, Kan., Frank Saunders, Jr., Jerome V. Bales, Sally H. Harris, Wallace, Saunders, Austin, Brown & Enochs, Overland Park, Kan., James R. Goheen, McAnany, Van Cleave & Phillips, Kenneth J. Reilly, Boddington & Brown, Kansas City, Kan., Larry L. McMullen, Blackwell, Sanders, Matheny, Weary & Lombardi, Kansas City, Mo., John J. Bukaty, Jr., Williamson, Cubbison & Hardy, Kansas City, Kan., Steven D. Ruse, James P. O'Hara, Shughart, Thomson & Kilroy, Overland Park, Kan., Hal E. DesJardins, Reid Stacey, Dept. of Social & Rehabilitation Services, Legal Div., Topeka, Kan., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

SAFFELS, District Judge.

These two cases stem from the March 20, 1981, shootings of Dr. Marc R. Beck and Ruth Rybolt at the University of Kansas Medical Center Emergency Room. According to the allegations of the complaints, the assailant, Bradley R. Boan, was later apprehended by authorities and confessed to the shootings. Both Dr. Beck and Ruth Rybolt died as a result.

Plaintiffs in their complaints name thirty separate defendants...

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