Paul E. Sherman v. Four County Counseling Center, Douglas Cox, Cass Superior Court Judge, and Gary Boyles, Officer

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• finding “no persuasive reason to distinguish between a private corporation and a private individual” with respect to an analysis of qualified immunity
• probable cause supported involuntary commitment, given plaintiffs multiple threats against others and odd public behavior
• “a reasonable institution could not have known what procedures were required before Sherman was medicated in 1989”
• \a reasonable institution could not have known what procedures were required before Sherman was medicated in 1989\
• officers 6 who committed plaintiff pursuant to Indiana’s civil commitment statute were entitled to qualified immunity
• requiring probable cause to detain for psychiatric evaluation

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).