MAWHIRT v. AHMED

No. 96 CV 04773(ADS).

86 F.Supp.2d 81 (2000)

Kingsley MAWHIRT, Plaintiff, v. Ashraf Nabil AHMED, M.D., Marsha Tanenberg Karant, M.D., Yakov Greenstein, M.D., Horacio Preval, M.D., John Doe, M.D., John Roe, M.D., Police Officer Gonzalez, Police Officer Romagnoli, Robert Dye, Esq., Lea Irion, R.N. and Barbara Mawhirt, Defendants.

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

February 14, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kingsley Mawhirt, Holtsville, NY, plaintiff pro se.

Eliot Spitzer, Attorney General for the State of New York, Mineola, NY by Robert K. Drinan, Assistant Attorney General, for the State defendants Ahmed, Karant, Greenstein, Preval, Doe, Roe, Dye and Irion.

Robert J. Cimino, Suffolk County Attorney, Hauppauge, NY by Arlene S. Zwilling, Assistant County Attorney, for the County defendants Gonzalez and Romagnoli.

Mental Disability Law Clinic Touro College, Huntington, NY (Matthew D. Semel, of counsel), for Amicus Curiae in support of the plaintiff pro se.


MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

SPATT, District Judge.

On September 27, 1996 Kingsley Mawhirt ("Mawhirt" or the "plaintiff") commenced this action alleging violations of his procedural and substantive due process rights as well as state law cause of action for false imprisonment and assault and battery in connection with two involuntary admissions to the University Hospital at Stony Brook ("UHSB") for...

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