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LANIER v. SALLAS

No. 84-2673 Summary Calendar.

777 F.2d 321 (1985)

Denise LANIER, Plaintiff-Appellee Cross-Appellant, v. J.B. SALLAS and Juanice Reed, Defendants Cross-Appellees, v. J.W. BIDDIX and Carl O. Murray, Defendants-Appellants Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 3, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Potter, Guinn, Minton & Roberts, John H. Minton, Jr., Michael G. Carroll, Tyler, for defendants-appellants cross-appellees.

Donald Grissom, Donald H. Grissom, J. Michael English, Austin, Tex., for plaintiff-appellee cross-appellant.

Mike Hatchell, Tyler, Tex., for Sallas & Reed.

Donald J. Gordon, Crockett, Tex., Jack Flock, Tyler, Tex., for Other Interested Parties.

Before RUBIN, JOHNSON and JONES, Circuit Judges.

ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge.

A plaintiff brought an action for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 together with state-law causes of action occasioned by her commitment to a mental institution. She was committed on the basis of a diagnosis made by doctors who certified that they had examined her although they had never even seen her. The plaintiff prevailed on her pendent state-law claim for medical malpractice, won a verdict of $100,000, then accepted a remittitur...

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