State Ex Rel. McMahon v. Hamilton

MeHUGH, Chief Justice:

Pro se petitioner Marie McMahon, invoking this Court’s original jurisdiction pursuant to W. Va.Code, 53-1-3 [1933], seeks to prohibit enforcement of an order entered April 8,1996 in the Circuit Court of Morgan County by the Honorable John M. Hamilton, special judge, a respondent herein. In that order, Judge Hamilton, upon the motion of respondents Martin & Seibert, L.C., Susan R. Snowden, Daniel T. Booth and Paul B. Weiss, ordered petitioner to undergo a psychiatric examination to determine whether she is mentally competent to proceed with the underlying civil action…