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WATKINS v. ROCHE

Civ. A. No. CV181-59.

529 F.Supp. 327 (1981)

William Mark WATKINS, M.D., Plaintiff, v. W. P. ROCHE, Jr., M.D.; W. Douglas Skelton, M.D.; Commissioner of the Department of Human Resources of the State of Georgia and his Successors in Office; Mickey M. Crouch, M.D.; and Douglas Lee Smith, M.D., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. Georgia, Augusta Division.

December 24, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen E. Shepard, Augusta, Ga., Kenneth R. Fielder, Cochran, Ga., for plaintiff.

Carol Cosgrove, Asst. Atty. Gen., Atlanta, Ga., W. Ward Newton, David R. Smith, Lyons, Ga., for defendants.

ORDER

BOWEN, District Judge.

On March 27, 1979, Dr. W. P. Roche, Jr., a defendant in this action, executed a physician's certificate, as authorized by Ga.Code Ann. § 88-404.2, which resulted in the plaintiff's involuntary temporary commitment to a state mental health facility for examination. The physician's certificate [hereinafter "certificate"] is a document which states that the person named therein has been personally examined by the signing physician...

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