causation established when hospital “prematurely” discharged mental patient who shot another some six weeks after discharge
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- causation established when hospital “prematurely” discharged mental patient who shot another some six weeks after discharge
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The opinion
*529 GAPPY, Justice,
concurring.
I concur in the result reached by those of my colleagues joining the Opinion Announcing the Judgment of the Court.
I believe that the only issue to be addressed in this opinion is the question of whether the appellee is entitled to blanket sovereign immunity as the trial court found in sustaining appellee’s preliminary objection. I agree that our recent decision in Goryeb v. Commonwealth, Department of Public Welfare, 525 Pa. 70 , 575 A.2d 545 (1990), sets forth certain specific circumstances under which appellee could be found liable and, thus, controls the issue of immunity pursuant to the Sovereign Immunity Act, 42 Pa.C.S. § 8521, et. seq. However, in concurring in the result, I do not subscribe to the reasoning or the rationale as offered in the majority opinion.