NEW ORLEANS — A federal court in Louisiana allowed a 13-year-old girl and her family to add two doctors to their suit against a school board, law enforcement and a children’s hospital alleging they unlawfully removed her from school and detained her for three days in a psychiatric ward without her parents’ consent. School officials say she told counselors that she was experiencing hallucinations and dreams of self-harm; her lawsuit describes her as an honors student with no medical history who made “an offhand joke.”
Read the ruling **here and read the original complaint here.
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