MORGAN v. RABUN

No. 97-1041.

128 F.3d 694 (1997)

Reginald MORGAN, Appellant, v. John RABUN; Lori Derosear, D.O.; John Twiehaus; Myra Ward, R.N.; Jerlean Williams, R.N.; Wardell Hardy, R.N.; Ron Scharer, R.N.; Rosemary Gardner, R.N.; Theodor Rankin, II, L.P.N.; Willie Thomas, R.N., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 10, 1997.

Rehearing Denied December 18, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Margaret Hart-Mahon, St. Louis, MO, argued, for appellant.

Hugh L. Marshall, Jefferson City, MO, argued (Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon, Atty. General, on the brief), for appellee.

Before BOWMAN, Circuit Judge, HENLEY, Senior Circuit Judge, and MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.


BOWMAN, Circuit Judge.

Reginald Morgan filed suit under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1994) claiming that Dr. John Rabun and his staff administered psychotropic drugs to Morgan against his will in violation of his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Dr. Rabun was Morgan's treating physician at the St. Louis State Hospital, where Morgan had been committed. The District Court2 granted summary judgment in favor of the...

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