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HEATER v. SOUTHWOOD PSYCHIATRIC CENTER

Docket No. D019431.

42 Cal.App.4th 1068 (1996)

49 Cal. Rptr.2d 880

ROBERT HEATER, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. SOUTHWOOD PSYCHIATRIC CENTER et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

February 13, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Coleman & Shelstad and Michael S. Coleman for Plaintiff and Appellant.

McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees & Sharkey, Richard D. Barton, Shelley A. Carder, Neil, Dymott, Perkins, Brown & Frank, Robert W. Frank, Hugh A. McCabe, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Robert H. Fairbank, Dirk L. Vincent, Dummit, Faber & Brown, Craig S. Dummit, Jeffry A. Miller, Horvitz & Levy, Lisa R. Jaskol and S. Thomas Todd for Defendants and Respondents.

OPINION

NARES, J.

Robert Heater (Heater) appeals from entry of judgment terminating his suit against Southwood Psychiatric Center and other defendants (collectively, Southwood) for false imprisonment, assault and battery, and medical malpractice. The trial judge found Southwood and the other defendants had detained Heater with probable cause, and the immunity noted in Welfare and Institutions...

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