Fayle v. Stapley

The appellant Fayle seeks to overturn the District Court’s summary judgment in favor of appellees in a civil rights suit brought by Fayle under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. In part, the judgment must be reversed and the cause remanded.

In the District Court, Fayle claimed that a state court order which required him to pay the cost of his own involuntary confinement in a state mental hospital violated his constitutional rights.

Specifically, Fayle contends that the Arizona statutory scheme,1 as applied by the appellees, deprived him (1) of his right to notice and the opportunity to be heard before his…