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DEMARCO v. SADIKER

No. 93-CV-5938 (ARR).

897 F.Supp. 693 (1995)

Brian DEMARCO, Plaintiff, v. S. SADIKER, M.D., personally, Edgar Paizin, M.D., personally, S. Singh Ohson, M.D., personally, John P. Iafrate, M.D., in his official capacity as Executive Director of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

May 22, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Brooks, William P. Coyle, Mental Disability Law Clinic, Huntington, NY, for plaintiff.

Dennis C. Vacco, Attorney General, State of New York (Patricia Hingerton, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel), Hauppauge, NY, for defendants Paiz, Ohson and Iafrate.

Owen B. Walsh, Nassau County Attorney (William Riccio, Deputy County Attorney, of counsel), Mineola, NY, for defendant Sadiker.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

ROSS, District Judge.

PRELIMINARY STATEMENT

This case involves a civil rights action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law claims of false imprisonment stemming from plaintiff's involuntary confinement for twenty-one days as a patient at the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center. As the constitutional claims underlying the civil rights action, plaintiff alleges a violation of his Fourteenth Amendment right to substantive...

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