Buchanan v. State of Maine, No. 06-1466 (1st Cir. 2006)
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United States Court of Appeals For the First Circuit No. 06-1466 DANIEL BUCHANAN, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Michael Buchanan; ESTATE OF MICHAEL BUCHANAN, Plaintiffs, Appellants, UNITED STATES, Intervenor, v. STATE OF MAINE; LYNN DUBY, individually and in her official capacity as former Commissioner of the Maine Department of Behavioral and Developmental Services; JULIANNE EDMONDSON; JOEL GILBERT; LINCOLN COUNTY; ROBERT EMERSON; KENNETH HATCH; JOHN NICHOLAS, Commissioner, Maine Department of Health and Human Services; WILLIAM CARTER; TODD BRACKETT, Sheriff, Lincoln County, Defendants, Appellees. ERRATA SHEET The opinion of this Court issued on November 16, 2006 is amended as follows: Page 30, sixth line in paragraph following the heading for subsection "c": replace "there is no evidence that the reason Maine did not" with "he has not shown that Maine's failure to" Page 31, line 6: remove one of the two "ยง" symbols Page 41, third line after the block quote: replace the comma after "564" and before "(2000)" with a space Page 42, footnote 15, line 3: with "Buchanan," replace "Buchanan v. Maine,"
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