United States Fourth Circuit

The standard for 14th Amendment liability in denial-of-medical-care claims for involuntarily committed patients is the "professional judgment" standard rather than the "deliberate indifference" standard for pre-trial detainees.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/18/2001
• Published 12/19/2001

Judges

• Before MOTZ, TRAXLER, and GREGORY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Stephen Winston Bricker, Bricker & Herring, P.C., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.  Colin JamesSteuart Thomas, III, Timberlake, Smith, Thomas & Moses, P.C., Staunton, Virginia, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Michael N. Herring, Bricker & Herring, P.C., Richmond, Virginia;  Rebecca K. Glenberg, American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia Foundation, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, for Appellant.  Randall T. Perdue, Timberlake, Smith, Thomas & Moses, P.C., Staunton, Virginia, for Appellees.