Legal Opinion
Snyder v. Faget
Supreme Court of Alabama
Decided January 9, 1976No. SC 1190Published
1Opinion of the Court
326 So.2d 113 (1976)
Paul L. SNYDER, Jr.
v.
Guy E. FAGET, M.D., et al.
SC 1190.
Supreme Court of Alabama.
January 9, 1976.
Irvin Grodsky, Mobile, for appellant.
Robert L. Byrd, Jr., and A. Neil Hudgens, Mobile, for appellee Guy E. Faget, M.D.
Barry Hess, and Thomas P. Doyle, Mobile, for appellees James W. Renkl and George M. Bellman.
SHORES, Justice.
Plaintiff Paul Snyder was committed to a state mental institution as prescribed by Title 45, § 208 et seq., Code of Alabama 1940, before that summary procedure was declared unconstitutional on its face in Lynch v. Baxley, 386 F.Supp. 378 (M.D.N.D.Ala.1974).
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2Cases cited18 opinions
- Lynch v. BaxleyDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1974
- Vegelahn v. GuntnerMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1896
- Mezullo v. MaletzMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1954
- O'BARR v. FeistSupreme Court of Alabama · 1974
- Barber v. StephensonSupreme Court of Alabama · 1953
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