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LOCKHART v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

No. B188674.

66 Cal.Rptr.3d 62 (2007)

155 Cal.App.4th 289

Timothy LOCKHART, Jr., Plaintiff and Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, et al., Defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeal of California, Second District, Division Three.

As Modified September 19 and October 4, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Law Offices of Kuhn & Belz, David L. Belz and Mary Luetto Nichols for Plaintiff and Appellant.

Monroy, Averbuck & Gysler and Jon F. Monroy, Westlaw Village; Pollak, Vida & Fisher, Daniel P. Barer and Anna L. Birenbaum, Los Angeles, for Defendants and Respondents.

CROSKEY, J.

Government Code section 854.8 provides immunity to public entities for injuries to inpatients of mental institutions. Government Code section 855 creates an exception to this liability for injuries "proximately caused by the failure of the public entity to provide adequate or sufficient equipment, personnel or facilities required by any statute or any regulation of the State Department of Health Services...

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