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DICK v. WATONWAN COUNTY

Civ. No. 4-82-116.

551 F.Supp. 983 (1982)

Alexander DICK and Irene Dick, Plaintiffs, v. WATONWAN COUNTY, Watonwan County Welfare Department and Mr. Bill Schutt, its Supervisor of Human Services, Ms. Deborah Hunter, Mental Health Worker, Mr. Jerry Ruppert, title unknown, and John Doe and Mary Roe, whose true names and titles are unknown, Watonwan County Sheriff, V.H. Engdahl, and Public School District # 840 and Ms. Maureen McCarthy, Guidance Counselor, and Mr. Daniel Birkholz, Watonwan County Attorney, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Minnesota, Fourth Division.

December 1, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome S. Rice, Gregory T. Spalj, Minneapolis, Minn., for plaintiffs.

Jack M. Fribley, G. Allan Cunningham, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, and Douglas J. Muirhead, Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp & Brennan, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendants Watonwan County, Sheriff Engdahl, and Daniel Birkholz.

James B. Wallace, C. Allen Dosland, Gislason, Dosland, Hunter & Malecki, New Ulm, Minn., for defendants Watonwan County Welfare Dept., Bill Schutt, Deborah Hunter, and Jerry Ruppert.

Gerald L. Maschka, Farrish, Johnson, Maschka & Hottinger, Mankato, Minn., for defendants Independent School Dist. # 840 and Maureen McCarthy.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MacLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the defendants' separate motions for summary judgment. The plaintiffs' amended complaint alleges a cause of action under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 based on the plaintiffs' involuntary commitment to detoxification centers in December of 1980. The plaintiffs also allege causes of action for false arrest and false imprisonment and for conspiracy to deprive the plaintiffs of their...

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