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LARKINS v. MENTAL HEALTH DEP'T

Docket No. 71835.

137 Mich. App. 318 (1984)

358 N.W.2d 7

LARKINS v. DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

Michigan Court of Appeals.

Decided June 22, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelman, Loria, Downing, Schneider & Simpson (by Morton E. Schneider), for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Louis J. Caruso, Solicitor General, and George L. McCarger and Craig Atchinson, Assistants Attorney General, for defendants Donald C. Smith, Vernon A. Stehman, Dr. Lawrence Jackson and J. Pearlman.

Plunkett, Cooney, Rutt, Watters, Stanczyk & Pedersen (by Robert G. Kamenec), for defendant Dr. S. Murthy.

Before: J.H. GILLIS, P.J., and T.M. BURNS and N.J. KAUFMAN, JJ.

PER CURIAM.

This case presents yet another addition to this Court's swelling jurisprudence on governmental immunity.

Lorrell Williams' mother filed a petition for his admission to the Detroit Psychiatric Institute on October 28, 1978. The petition was accompanied by statements from two doctors who had examined him and detailed his behavioral problems. According to plaintiffs' complaint, Williams was examined upon his admission the next day by defendant Dr...

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