The line between state and private action is at issue in the involuntary mental health commitment of a Suffolk County man who is suing after being confined at a private hospital for 10 days.
Eastern District Judge Arthur Spatt denied the motion to dismiss made by two doctors at Brunswick Hospital Center in Amityville in the case of Patrick Bryant, who claimed the private doctors took the word of a state doctor who worked at the former New York state-operated Stony Brook Medical Center.
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