MENTAL COMMITMENT supported by sufficient overt acts, sufficient findings… McLean affirmed. [Read more…]
Mental commitment, machete perseveration, overt
MENTAL COMMITMENT: Testimony of professional that person wanted to harm people with machete and disjoined perseveration about machete sufficient overt acts to warrant commitment regardless of any erroneous reliance on petition allegations… Larson affirmed. [Read more…]
Mental commitment, failure to file report
MENTAL COMMITMENT: Psychologist’s failure to file statutorily required report not prejudicial in this case, plain error review declined… Deschamps affirmed. [Read more…]
Mental commitment, homeless person, basic needs
MENTAL COMMITMENT: Sufficient evidence that homeless person with mental disorder unable to provide needs to warrant commitment… Deschamps affirmed. [Read more…]
Defense verdict, hospital employee pedestrian/auto
VERDICT: Defense ($55,000 damages, 90/10 negligence), off-duty hospital employee hit while crossing street to employee parking lot, facial laceration, road rash, broken zygoma, rib fracture, compression [Read more…]
Age discrimination
AGE DISCRIMINATION claims against chemical dependency entity based on assertion that director wanted to hire younger women rejected… Gregory Hanchett. [Read more…]