Mezullo v. Maletz

How courts have described this case

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• absolute privilege protected physician who signed certificate in commitment proceeding certifying that plaintiff was insane
• statute prohibiting conspiracy to commit a person improperly to a mental institution
• “One who procures the arrest or confinement of another on lawful process is not liable to an action of false imprisonment, although he caused the process to issue by means of false statements.”
• if jury found that defendant, in collusion with his butler, caused physician by false statements to request commitment of plaintiff to State hospital, and consequently she was received and detained there, defendant would be liable to plaintiff in damages for false imprisonment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).