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MARTELL v. CHISHOLM

Civ. A. No. 74-72 Erie.

384 F.Supp. 1224 (1974)

Kenneth E. MARTELL v. William D. CHISHOLM, Individually and formerly as a counselor for the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counseling Center, et al.

United States District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

November 21, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles A. Bierbach and Otto F. Hofmann, Legal Services for Northwestern Pennsylvania, Meadville, Pa., for plaintiff.

Ballard F. Smith, Jr., Meadville, Pa., for Chisholm.

R. Charles Thomas, Meadville, Pa., for Eckert.

Janet Moschetta, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Pittsburgh, Pa., James T. Marnen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Erie, Pa., for Judge Thomas.

Robert L. Walker, Meadville, Pa., for Spencer Hospital.

OPINION

WEBER, District Judge.

Plaintiff brought this action for deprivation of his constitutionally protected civil rights alleging in paragraph one of his Complaint that "through the individual and collective actions of the defendants . . . he was falsely imprisoned at the defendant Spencer Hospital for a period of fifteen days without due process. The aforesaid imprisonment was effected through the commencement of a statutorily defective civil commitment...

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