Legal Opinion
Wyatt v. King
District Court, M.D. Alabama
Decided July 22, 1991No. Civ. A. No. 3195-NPublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.
In 1974, then-Chief United States District Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., writing on behalf of a three-judge district court, found that Alabama’s procedures for involuntary civil commitment of the mentally ill to state institutions did.not comport with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Lynch v. Baxley, 386 F.Supp. 378 (M.D.Ala.). Judge Johnson set forth and imposed on the state “those standards and safeguards which, at a minimum, the Due Process Clause requires for the protection of persons…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- Mathews v. EldridgeSupreme Court of the United States · 1976
- Greenholtz v. Inmates of the Nebraska Penal & Correctional ComplexSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Addington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1979
- Jackson v. IndianaSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
- O'Connor v. DonaldsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Wyatt Ex Rel. Rawlins v. RogersCourt of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit · 1996
- WYATT BY AND THROUGH RAWLINS v. RogersDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1997
- Thomas v. State Dept. of Mental HealthCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1992
- WYATT BY AND THROUGH RAWLINS v. KingDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1993
- WYATT BY AND THROUGH RAWLINS v. KingDistrict Court, M.D. Alabama · 1992
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