ESTATE OF

846 F.2d 1205 ESTATE OF Marilyn Marie CONNERS, by its Administrator, Howard MEREDITH; Howard Meredith; Lillian Beatty, individuals, as sole heirs of Marilyn Marie Conners, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. Dennis Michael O'CONNOR; Fred Valenzuela; Stephen Donoviel; Thaddeus Kostrubala; John Lewis Duncan, Defendants-Appellants. No. 87-1644. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Jan. 14, 1988. Decided May 17, 1988. John Houston Scott, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiffs-appellees. Paul T. Hammerness, Deputy Atty. Gen., San Francisco, Cal., for defendants-appellants. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. Before GOODWIN and NELSON, Circuit Judges, and BREWSTER, * District Judge. GOODWIN, Circuit Judge: 1 State officials with management responsibility for Napa State Hospital appeal the denial of their motion for summary judgment based upon qualified immunity from suit. This type of interlocutory appeal in 42 U.S.C. Sec. 1983 damage actions has become more or less routine following Mitchell v. Forsyth, 472 U.S. 511 , 105 S.Ct. 2806 , 86 L.Ed.2d 411 (1985). 1 2 In August 1985, Marilyn Conners, a patient at Napa State…