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Friday, October 9, 2026
Courthouse News Service
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Psychiatric break

TULSA, Okla. — An appeals court in Oklahoma upheld a court’s finding that the mental health facility that refused admittance to a potential psychiatric patient had no patient-physician relationship with the person, a truck driver who hassled another driver at a truck stop before stealing a truck and getting killed when he tried to stab the other driver’s wife. The facility is not liable for these events.

Read the ruling here.

Categories / Appeals, Briefs, Health, Personal Injury

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