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Abstract: 

Ammons sued two employees of the Child and Treatment center (TC) under 42 USC § 1983 for damages claiming a violation of her Fourteenth Amendment substantive due process right to safe conditions while a minor and in the custody of a state-run mental institution. The lower court found that TC was negligent in failing to supervise an employee who molested the plaintiff, a minor in the care of the state-run facility. The 9th Circuit upheld the lower court ruling in a case that is significant in setting forth the standard of care for patients or residnts of civil facilities including treatment centers.

Keywords: Ammons v. Washington Dept. of Social & Health Services 648 F.3d 1020; Youngberg v. Romeo , 457 U.S. 307

Affiliations:  1: Executive Editor.