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DICK v. WATONWAN COUNTY

No. CIV 4-82-116.

562 F.Supp. 1083 (1983)

Alexander DICK and Irene Dick, Plaintiffs, v. WATONWAN COUNTY, Tri-County Human Services Board, 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, Defendants.

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

April 11, 1983.

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, Minn., and William D. Flaskamp and Douglas J. Muirhead, Meagher, Geer, Markham, Anderson, Adamson, Flaskamp & Brennan, Minneapolis, Minn., for defendant Watonwan County.

James B. Wallace, C. Allen Dosland, Gislason, Dosland, Hunter & Malecki, New Ulm, Minn., for defendants Tri-County Human Services Board, Bill Schutt, Deborah Hunter, and Jerry Ruppert.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MacLAUGHLIN, District Judge.

This matter is before the Court on the defendants' alternative motions to amend the judgment, for judgment notwithstanding the verdict, or for a new trial, and the plaintiffs' motion for attorneys' fees and costs. The plaintiffs claimed a violation of their constitutional rights stemming from their involuntary confinement to detoxification centers for a period of three days. After a nine day trial, the jury...

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