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GOINES v. VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES BD.

No. 15-1589.

822 F.3d 159 (2016)

Gordon GOINES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES BOARD; David Shaw; Robert Dean; D.L. Williams; Jenna Rhodes; John Does 1-10, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided: May 9, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timothy Lawrence Coffield , Coffield PLLC, Keswick, Virginia; Jesse Howard Baker , Law Office of Jesse Baker IV, Gainesville, Virginia, for Appellant. Richard Hustis Milnor , Zunka Milnor & Carter, Ltd., Charlottesville, Virginia; James Morton Bowling , St. John, Bowling, Lawrence & Quagliana, LLP, Charlottesville, Virginia; Rosalie Fessier , Timberlake, Smith, Thomas & Moses, PC, Staunton, Virginia, for Appellees.

Affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded by published opinion. Chief Judge TRAXLER wrote the opinion in which Judge WILKINSON and Judge NIEMEYER joined. Judge NIEMEYER wrote a separate concurring opinion.

Gordon Goines went to the police station to report the theft of his cable services and ended up involuntarily detained for six days for a mental-health evaluation. Goines thereafter brought this action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging that he was unlawfully seized without probable...

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