United States Fifth Circuit

In a suit alleging a civil conspiracy to have plaintiff involuntarily committed for mental treatment, summary judgment for defendants is affirmed where: 1) plaintiff did not produce evidence to show a agreement between the private and public defendants; 2) there was no factual dispute on the elements of a malicious-prosecution claim; 3) there was no basis for a per se negligence action against defendants-stepsons; 4) no material facts were in dispute as to whether defendants-doctors deprived plaintiff of due-process rights; 5) intentional infliction of emotional distress and malicious prosecution claims against defendants-doctors were not supported by evidence; and 6) defendants-doctors were entitled to immunity on negligence claims.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/25/2008
• Published 11/25/2008

Judges

• SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:, Before BENAVIDES, SOUTHWICK and HAYNES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Carroll E. Rhodes, Law Offices of Carroll Rhodes, Hazlehurst, MS, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Brenda B. Bethany, Daniel, Coker, Horton & Bell, Jackson, MS, for Cary Tebo and Kenneth Tebo., Whitman B. Johnson, III, Lorraine Walters Boykin, Currie, Johnson, Griffin, Gaines & Myers, Jackson, MS, for Chip Dale Holbrook., Mark Priestly Caraway, Wise Carter Child & Caraway, Jackson, MS, for Nadine Bush.