Goryeb v. Com. Dept. of Public Welfare

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a party participating in a decision to examine, treat, or discharge a mentally ill patient under the MHPA who commits willful misconduct or gross negligence can be liable for such decision or for any of its consequences
• holding that a party participating in a decision to examine, treat, or discharge a mentally ill patient under the MHPA who commits willful misconduct or gross negligence can be liable for such decision or for any of its consequences
• finding duty to protect \others\ who could foreseeably be affected by a wrongful discharge of a mental patient consistent with Section 319 of the Restatement (Second) of Torts and our own prior case law
• discussing liability of physicians and hospitals which negligently released psychiatric patients
• in summary judgment context, all doubts must be resolved in favor of the non-moving party
• act of criminal homicide can form the basis upon which liability is placed upon the Commonwealth by specific statutory provisions under the Mental Health Procedures Act, Act of July 9, 1976, P.L. 817, as amended, 50 P.S. §§ 7101-7503

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).