February 02, 2021
The Ninth Circuit on Tuesday affirmed a $1 million judgment in a suit accusing a psychiatrist of wrongly reporting an Iraq War veteran as a homicide risk, rejecting the doctor's claim that California law dictates that she should have been held immune to the suit.
January 11, 2021
A Ninth Circuit judge doubted Monday a psychiatrist's efforts to overturn a $1 million jury trial judgment against her for wrongly reporting an Iraq War veteran as a homicide risk, saying she's asking for a "free pass," which would incentivize doctors to report "any form of threat, imagined or dreamed."