LARRABEE BY JONES v. DERWINSKI

No. 1648, Docket 92-6059.

968 F.2d 1497 (1992)

John LARRABEE, by his sister, and conservator Judith Burnham JONES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Edward DERWINSKI, in his official capacity as Secretary of Veteran's Affairs of the U.S., Robert Perreault, in his official capacity as director of the Veteran's Medical Center in Newington CT, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided June 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David C. Shaw, Hartford, Conn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Jonathan R. Siegel, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C. (Stuart M. Gerson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Mark B. Stern, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Albert S. Dabrowski, U.S. Atty., Carl J. Shuman, Asst. U.S. Atty., Hartford, Conn., of counsel), for defendants-appellees.

Before PRATT, MAHONEY and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge:

John Larrabee is a Vietnam veteran, now totally disabled and residing in a psychiatric unit of the Veterans' Hospital in Newington, Connecticut. Through his sister and conservator, Judith Jones, Larrabee sued the Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Director of the Newington Veterans' Hospital, alleging that they violated his statutory rights and both substantive and procedural due process, as well. The District Court for the District of...

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