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WALTERS v. WESTERN STATE HOSP.

No. 86-2811.

864 F.2d 695 (1988)

Ralph WALTERS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. WESTERN STATE HOSPITAL, Ft. Supply, Oklahoma, et al., Defendants, and Patrick W. Dudley, M.D., and E.B. Lasmarias, M.D., Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

December 29, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Nance, Asst. Atty. Gen., Deputy Chief, Federal Div. (Robert H. Henry, Atty. Gen. of Oklahoma, with him, on the brief), Oklahoma City, Okl., for defendants-appellants.

James Craig Dodd (Kaye M. Kirke, also of Craig Dodd & Associates, with him, on the brief), Enid, Okl., for plaintiff-appellee.

Before LOGAN, BARRETT and BRORBY, Circuit Judges.

LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

Defendants Patrick W. Dudley and E.B. Lasmarias appeal the denial of their motion for summary judgment based on the defense of qualified immunity.1 This suit arose out of plaintiff Ralph Walters' involuntary admission to Western State Hospital (Western), an Oklahoma mental institution at which Dudley and Lasmarias are employed as physicians. Walters was admitted under an Oklahoma law permitting the emergency detention...

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