LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A judge has ruled against a Florida man who sued doctors and psychiatrists at the Lincoln Regional Center, where he was held on a misdiagnosis for 19 years.

53-year-old John Montin accused them of failing to properly evaluate him, alleging that it led to improper treatment plans and his continued confinement.

A judge said in his order last week that Montin may have a right against unnecessary and improper confinement, but that it wasn’t the doctors’ decision that kept him at the center, but rather a state judge’s.

Montin’s 2014 lawsuit sought more than $22 million in damages for incorrectly being labeled mentally ill and for unnecessarily being held and subjected to treatments he didn’t need. He also sought $760,000 in lost wages and $10 million in punitive damages.