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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hamilton finds that the district court properly entered summary judgment for a psychiatrist at Patton State Hospital in California in an action where a patient alleged that he was attacked by a fellow patient while he was a pretrial detainee and a patient at the hospital. The patient offered no evidence that the psychiatrist failed to act reasonably concerning the attack and found in favor of the psychiatrist on the merits rather than based on the defense of qualified immunity. Affirmed.
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