Legal Opinion
Hardesty v. Draper
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 23, 1997No. 91-SP-216PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge:
In this appeal, appellant Leslielyn Hardesty asks this court to review the trial court’s denial of her petition for habeas corpus seeking release from the custody of the Psychiatric Institute of Washington (“PIW”). In particular, she seeks a ruling on the procedure used by PIW to review applications for admission filed by parents on behalf of their minor children pursuant to D.C.Code § 21-511 (1989). Hardesty was released from PIW before she filed this appeal and has since reached the age of majority. We dismiss the appeal as moot.
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Hardesty was seventeen and a half years…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- Francis W. Friend v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
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