California Magistrate: Man’s Elder Abuse Claim Fails, But He Can Amend Complaint

(June 14, 2017, 5:29 PM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A California magistrate judge on June 5 said that a 72-year-old man does not have a federal cause of action for elder abuse in a case in which he alleges that he was injured by police officers responding to a medical emergency but allowed him to file an amended complaint to correct deficiencies in his complaint (Victor M. Sienze v. Madera County Sheriff’s Office, et al., No. 1:17-cv-00736, E.D. Calif., 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 86055)....

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