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KNIGHT v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF COLO.

Civ. A. No. 79-K-211.

496 F.Supp. 779 (1980)

Frances Ann KNIGHT, a/k/a Frances Ann Duran, Plaintiff, v. The PEOPLE OF the STATE OF COLORADO, Governor Richard Lamm, Head of the Colorado State Department of Institutions, Superintendent of the Colorado State Hospital, Dr. Haydee Kort, Superintendent of Colorado State Hospital, Individually, Mr. Lancaster, Security Police, Mary Gonzales, Kathy Huskins, Marjorie Schoekenberger, Dan Theobald and Polly Wilcox, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

August 29, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Paul Cohen, Wolf & Slatkin, Denver, Colo., for plaintiff.

Tarquin J. Bromley, Asst. Atty. Gen., Duncan W. Cameron, Hall & Evans, Denver, Colo., for defendants.

ORDER

KANE, District Judge.

This § 1983 civil rights damage action for violation of the eighth, thirteenth and fourteenth amendments is before the court on defendants' motion for summary judgment. Plaintiff Knight, a mental patient at the Colorado State Hospital, was assaulted by another patient, Billy Raines, on the night of January 25, 1979. More specifically, she was attacked and kissed and "felt up" without her consent while both persons were fully...

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