Legal Opinion
A.S. v. Lincoln Health
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided January 28, 2021PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAINE SUPREME JUDICIAL COURT Reporter of Decisions Decision:
2021 ME 6
Docket: Lin-20-117 Argued: November 18, 2020 Decided: January 28, 2021 Panel: MEAD, GORMAN, HUMPHREY, HORTON, and CONNORS, JJ. A.S. v. LINCOLNHEALTH GORMAN, J. [¶1] On February 24, 2020, law enforcement officers brought A.S. to the LincolnHealth Miles Hospital Campus in Damariscotta, and he was held in the emergency department of that hospital for the next thirty days. At no time during that period did LincolnHealth seek or obtain judicial endorsement of its detention of A.S., as required by 34-B M.R.S. § 3863 (2020). On the…
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