Appeals of Pope

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing general privilege for witnesses; holding that physician who testified in civil commitment proceedings should not be liable for false imprisonment in the absence of bad faith or malice
• mental commitment case; emphasizing importance of insulating physician witnesses from liability, given their quasi-judicial role, the value of fully informed judicial decisions, and the fact that any confinement is ultimately directly caused by an exercise of judicial discretion

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).