ROCKWELL v. CAPE COD HOSP.

No. 93-1581.

26 F.3d 254 (1994)

Susan ROCKWELL, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. CAPE COD HOSPITAL, et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided June 16, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Steven J. Schwartz, Ltd. with whom Susan Rockwell pro se was on brief for appellant.

Cailie Currin and Timothy A. Clune on brief, for Disability Advocates, Inc., amicus curiae.

John M. Dellea, with whom Jeanmarie Papelian, Ficksman & Conley, were on the briefs, for appellee Joan Marie Corr, M.D.

Leslie Lockard and Gaffin & Krattenmaker, P.C., were on the brief for appellee Cape Cod Hosp.

Colleen M. McKenna, with whom Mary Morrissey Sullivan, Richard L. Nahigian and Sullivan, Sullivan & Pinta, were on brief, for appellees Benjamin Ianzito, M.D. and Cape Cod Hosp.

Joel I. Klein, Paul M. Smith and Klein, Farr, Smith & Taranto on brief, for The American Psychiatric Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Before TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge, ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge, and STAHL, Circuit Judge.


TORRUELLA, Circuit Judge.

Susan Rockwell ("Rockwell") brought this 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action pro se in the district court against Cape Cod Hospital ("the Hospital"), a private institution, and two private physicians, who pursuant to Mass.Gen.L. ch. 123, § 12, involuntarily restrained her, admitted her to the Hospital and gave her medication. The doctors moved to dismiss the complaint. The court allowed the motion and entered final judgment in this case...

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