Mohamed v. Soliman CA2/5
Following her involuntary month-long commitment at a psychiatric hospital in Egypt, plaintiff Maha Mohamed sued defendants Dr. Mounir Soliman and his employer, the Regents of the University of California, for various intentional torts including false imprisonment and intentional infliction of emotional distress. Plaintiff alleged that her then-husband (Tarek), her brother, and Dr. Soliman worked in concert to orchestrate her wrongful commitment to the mental institution at a time when plaintiff had threatened to divorce Tarek and return to the United States. Plaintiff asserted that Dr. Soliman, who was Tarek’s friend, used his position as a prominent psychiatrist at the University of California, San Diego to cause or at least prolong her wrongful imprisonment and cause her incapacitation with anti-psychotic medications. Dr. Soliman did this, according to her allegations, by communicating false information to her treating physicians at the Egyptian hospital.
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