Williams v. Meredith

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Appellants, who have been deemed to be mentally ill and a danger to themselves and to others, were hospitalized involuntarily under an emergency commitment procedure and are currently in confinement at Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Appellee Meredith is the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Appellees Ruffin, Murphy, and D’Amore are the physician-members of the Commission on Mental Health who made the application for emergency hospitalization in each case. 1 Appellants urge that their confinement is illegal and that the trial court should have issued their requested…