Posted on 01/06/2018 5:03:40 AM PST by dis.kevin
A federal lawsuit filed by Eugene Wright of Meadville claims authorities got the wrong Mr. Wright when they handcuffed him, took him to Meadville Medical Center where he was drugged against his will for making claims to harm himself and others.
The suit claims it was all done without checking his identity to make sure they had the right Mr. Wright.
Wright, 63, and his wife, Carolyn, filed suit Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Western Pennsylvania against Meadville Medical Center, Meadville Police Department and Stairways Behavioral Health for the June 15, 2017, incident that began outside Wright's home.
Wright's suit claims false imprisonment, negligence, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault, battery, civil rights violation, invasion of privacy and a loss of consortium with his wife. Carolyn Wright has joined Wright in suing the hospital, police and mental health agency for the loss of consortium.
The suit claims Wright has the same name as a different Eugene Wright, who had been at an orthopedic physician's office around 10 a.m. June 15, 2017, and made threats to hurt himself and others.
The suit alleges on June 15, 2017, at about 1:45 p.m., Wright was walking outside his home to his vehicle when he saw two Meadville Police Department officers and Robin Dowling, executive director of Stairways Behavioral Health, standing beside his vehicle.
The suit claims one of the officers then told Wright of the office incident. Wright said they were mistaken because he had been working his job as a customer service representative at Advance Auto Parts of Meadville at the time of the office incident, according to the suit.
Wright asked the police officers and Dowling to call the auto parts store to verify Wright had been at work that morning, but they refused, the suit says.
Wright then was handcuffed, but Wright repeatedly told police they had the wrong person and repeatedly requested he be able to show his identification and Social Security card to prove it, according to the suit.
The suit claims after arriving at the hospital, the hospital staff didn't check Wright’s identification, even though Wright previously was a patient at Meadville Medical Center. The hospital had medical records with Wright’s correct identification information, according to the suit.
The suit says a doctor then ordered Wright be injected with a chemical sedation of intramuscular Haldol and Ativan.
Wright told the nurse he didn't want to be injected with drugs and repeatedly said the wrong person was at the hospital, the suit claims.
One of the police officers then told Wright if he didn’t agree to receive the shots, officers would hold Wright down so the nurse could inject him, the suit said.
Wright didn't want to be held down by police, but was given no choice in the matter, so he eventually permitted the nurse to administer him the two shots, the suit states. The drugs Wright was given were against his will and ordered for the specifications of the wrong individual, the suit claims.
Hospital staff, police and Dowling later learned they had mistaken Wright's identity because there was another individual named Eugene Wright, the suit claims.
So, did the correct Mr. Wright hurt himself or others? Or was this a cluster all around?
Not that I know of, it was never reported.
“To make up for it, the representative gave him a $50 gift card to Montana’s Rib and Chop House”
and then later, a $25 gift card.
They did that so when he takes them to court, they can claim he already accepted compensation and that settled it.
Never take a penny from someone who’s liable for millions of them.
There are several individuals within a ten mile radius of me with the same first and last name, all related but distantly. We go by our middle names to avoid confusion. I hope none of them attract the attention of police or something. They’ve gotten very, very stupid and are in no mood to hear about it.
He needs to receive at least 50 million plus a written apology for this.
Kidnapping, false arrest and imprisonment, libel, medical malpractice, mental anguish, pain and suffering, loss of consort. I’d say they’ll be wise to settle in the low tens of millions.
They had the Wrong Mr. Wright..... how ironic.
Mr. Wright should own the town. The police in question should be terminated and never work as cops again.
I would have said, “why should I fight you, when you’re about to make me a very wealthy man?” That might have caused them to think twice. Or maybe not, considering.
He’s lucky they didn’t lobotomize him.
I about spent a night in jail over something similar, luckily the cop had an open mind and I had witnesses.
That’s exactly how I feel
That’s what I was thinking.
Or they may have just killed him.
“That might have caused them to think twice”.
Unfortunately, government officials and employees don’t have any reason to worry about suffering any personal consequences due to their bad decision making.
If you sue them and win you and your fellow taxpayers will have the privilege of paying the judgement. At the same time they have the luxury of being able to spend unlimited taxpayer money in defending themselves and in many cases they will try to beat you into submission by the sheer weight of having to devote all your time and money in legal battles.
A lawyer is going to be rich
Fortuitous enrichment
I love the unrealistic judgement expectations I see on Free Republic, I find them amusing.
Yes, he’s due some cash. And you’re off by 2 orders of magnitude I expect.
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