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UHS OF TIMBERLAWN, INC. v. S.B. EX. REL. A.B.

No. 05-08-00222-CV.

281 S.W.3d 207 (2009)

UHS OF TIMBERLAWN, INC., Appellant, v. S.B., a Minor, by and through her Next Friend, A.B., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

February 24, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sidney L. Murphy, Steed Flagg, L.L.P., Rockwell, Cathy F. Bailey, Steed Flagg, LLP, Dallas, for Appellant.

Vicki Kathleen McCarthy, Duncanville, Kirk L. Pittard, F. Leighton Durham, Cheyenne J. Robertson, Durham & Pittard, Dallas, for Appellee.

Before Justices MOSELEY, RICHTER, and FRANCIS.

OPINION

Opinion by Justice MOSELEY.

Appellee S.B., acting through her next friend A.B., sued appellant UHS of Timberlawn, Inc. She alleges that while she was thirteen years old and a patient at Timberlawn's psychiatric treatment facility, she was placed in a ward with male patients, where one of them raped her. She claims her injuries were proximately caused by the negligence of Timberlawn's employees.

Timberlawn asserts, among other things, that...

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