United States Ninth Circuit

A 42 U.S.C. section 1983 plaintiff failed to show that a contract psychiatrist departed from generally accepted standards in the medical community in prolonging a detention, for mental health evaluation under the Oregon Revised Statute section 426.232, for more than two days.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/11/2002
• Published 12/11/2002

Judges

• Before GOODWIN, GRABER, and FISHER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Pamela A. Harrison,Harrison & Pease, Eugene, OR, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ruth Casby Rocker, Hoffman, Hart & Wagner, Portland, OR, for the defendant-appellee.