PINO v. HIGGS

No. 94-2079.

75 F.3d 1461 (1996)

Pam PINO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. E.P. HIGGS, Curt Faust, Marcella Wolf, Jim Naranjo, Harlan Weiss, Pablo Hernandez, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

February 5, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank A. Baca, Jr. and Lorenzo A. Chavez, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Ronald J. Childress and Elaine R. Dailey, of Klecan, Childress & Huling, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Defendants-Appellees Higgs and Faust.

Charles W. Weese, of Rodey, Dickason, Sloan, Akin & Robb, P.A., Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Defendant-Appellee Wolf.

Ronald W. Henkel, of Henkel, Sloan & Gay, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for Defendant-Appellee Weiss.

Walter G. Lombardi and Maha Khoury, of RMD Legal Bureau, State of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico, for Defendants-Appellees Naranjo and Hernandez.

Before KELLY and SETH, Circuit Judges, and BROWN, District Judge.


SETH, Circuit Judge.

Appellant Pam Pino filed this civil rights action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against the six Appellees in their individual capacities. Appellant claimed that Appellees violated her constitutional rights by taking her from her home and transporting and detaining her for emergency mental health evaluations at Socorro General Hospital and Las Vegas Medical Center (LVMC), both in New Mexico.

The district court granted summary judgment motions...

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