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| Suit against state ward could set precedent |
| By Ventura County Star |
| Published: 10/01/2007 |
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CALIFORNIA - While on prescribed drugs for post-traumatic stress disorder and under suicide watch at the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility, Patricia Diane Hills refused to be strip-searched and spat on a corrections officer. That was two years ago, when Hills was 16. This year, after Hills turned 18, the corrections officer she spat on, Deborah McCollum, went to Small Claims Court and sued her for the "intentional infliction of emotional distress." She asked for $5,000 as punitive damages. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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