Legal Opinion
Project Release v. Prevost
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided December 29, 1978No. 78 C 1467PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
NEAHER, District Judge.
This civil rights action, brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and its jurisdictional counterpart 28 U.S.C. § 1343(3), challenges the constitutionality of the standards for civil commitment of mentally ill persons embodied in various provisions of the New York Mental Hygiene Law (“MHL”) and the procedures used in such commitments. Specifically, the action is brought to declare MHL §§ 9.13, 9.27 and 9.39 unconstitutional and to enjoin their enforcement to the extent they are declared constitutionally inadequate. 1
Plaintiffs are a non-profit…
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- Johnson v. GlickCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973
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- Wright v. CuylerCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1980
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