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Civil Rights - Due Process - Action For Civil Conspiracy Based On Section 1983, James B. Blanchard
Civil Rights - Due Process - Action For Civil Conspiracy Based On Section 1983, James B. Blanchard
Michigan Law Review
In an action for damages based on sections 1983 and 1985 of the Civil Rights Act, plaintiff alleged that a county health officer and his deputy, pursuant to a conspiracy, forcibly took plaintiff to a mental hospital and confined him there for a period of two months in willful violation of a state court order requiring plaintiff to be brought before the court for a sanity hearing. Plaintiff also alleged a false return of citation to the court by the officers and an intentional suppression of facts by the officers and the examining physician regarding plaintiff's illegal detention. Plaintiff contended …