U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 1962

Early C. Cooper v. Angus Wilson

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · Decided October 12, 1962 · Cecil, Mc-Allister, Darr

309 F.2d 153; 1962 U.S. App. LEXIS 3923 (Federal Reporter, Second Series)

Counsel

George Bailes, Cincinnati, Ohio, Richard L. Hinton, Flemingsburg, Ky., for plaintiff-appellant., Robert G. McIntosh, Cincinnati, Ohio, McIntosh & McIntosh, Cincinnati, Ohio, Robert G. McIntosh, Cincinnati, Ohio, of counsel, for defendant-appellee.

Cases that cite this one

15 later published cases cite this decision.

Morrow v. Igleburger (District Court, S.D. Ohio 1974)
Samuel H. Sheppard v. The E. W. Scripps Company, Louis B. Seltzer, Samuel R. Gerber (6th Cir. 1970)
William J. Bauers, Jr. v. Herbert T. Heisel, Jr (3d Cir. 1966)
Simpson v. Voiture Nationale La Societe Des Quarante Hommes (Ohio Ct. App. 2021)
Catz v. Chalker (6th Cir. 1998)
Catz v. Chalker (6th Cir. 1998)
Robert J. McClear v. Patricia F. Donaldson, David C. Anderson, Barry M. Grant, and Sandra G. Silver (6th Cir. 1987)
Tate v. Yenoir (District Court, E.D. Michigan 1982)
Phillips v. Fisher (District Court, D. Kansas 1977)
Dear Ex Rel. Dear v. Rathje (District Court, N.D. Illinois 1975)
Kovacs v. Goodman (District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania 1974)
Weyandt v. Mason's Stores, Inc. (District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania 1968)
Marland v. Heyse (10th Cir. 1963)
Sherman H. Skolnick v. Charles T. Martin, Arthur Lilly, and Charles R. Perrigo (7th Cir. 1963)
Marland v. Heyse (10th Cir. 1963)

This list shows which later cases cite this one. It does not say how they treated it, and no review of that has been done. Not a substitute for Shepard’s or KeyCite — verify before relying.

Opinion

ORDER

The appellant brought this action based on Section 1983, Title 42 U.S.C.A., jurisdiction being asserted under Section 1343, Title 28 U.S.C.A., for deprivation of his alleged civil rights by his commitment to and confinement in a mental institution. The claim is made that the appel-lee, a private practicing attorney, by his fraudulent conduct in the sanity proceedings resulted in appellant’s confinement in a mental institution.

The District Court sustained appellee’s motion to dismiss the action.

Appellee, acting as a private lawyer, charged with making false statements in sanity proceedings which resulted in appellant’s commitment to Longview State Hospital, a mental institution, was not amenable to action based on civil rights statute. Kenny v. Fox, 232 F.2d 288 (1956) C.A. 6.

It is, therefore, ordered and adjudged that the District Court’s judgment dismissing the action is in all things affirmed.

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