Legal Opinion
In Interest of CW
North Dakota Supreme Court
Decided March 27, 1990No. Civ. 900004PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MESCHKE, Justice.
C.W. appealed from a commitment to the North Dakota State Hospital for an indefinite period and from an order denying her relief from the indeterminateness of the continuing treatment. We dismiss her appeal as a premature constitutional attack on continuing treatment statutes.
In 1989 at McKenzie County, C.W. was committed to the North Dakota State Hospital on an emergency basis. During that temporary 14 day inpatient commitment, C.W. was diagnosed as a chronic schizophrenic of the undifferentiated type and as suffering from delusions.
C.W. then agreed to an order for…
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