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DICK v. WATONWAN COUNTY

No. 83-1633.

738 F.2d 939 (1984)

Alexander DICK and Irene Dick v. WATONWAN COUNTY, Appellant, and Tri-County Human Services Board and Bill Schutt, its Supervisor of Human Services, Deborah Hunter, Mental Health Worker, Jerry Ruppert, title unknown, and John Doe and Mary Roe, whose true names and titles are unknown, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided July 11, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Faegre & Benson, Jack M. Fribley, Scott W. Johnson, James Duffy O'Connor, and Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp & Brennan, W.D. Flaskamp, D.J. Muirhead, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellant Watonwan County.

Gislason, Dosland, Hunter & Malecki, C. Allen Dosland, James B. Wallace, New Ulm, Minn., for appellees Tri-County Human Services Board, Deborah Hunter and Jerry Ruppert.

Before ROSS, ARNOLD and FAGG, Circuit Judges.

ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

Alexander and Irene Dick brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1982) against Watonwan County, Minnesota, the Tri-County Human Services Board (Tri-County or the Board), and several employees of the Board. The jury found that the involuntary commitment of the Dicks on the complaint of Tri-County employees Deborah Hunter and Jerry Ruppert deprived them of their liberty without due process of law. The jury also found that William Schutt...

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