Jean P. LYNCH, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs,
Jesse M. Hughes, Intervening Plaintiff,
v.
William J. BAXLEY, Individually and as Attorney General of the State of Alabama, et al., Defendants.
United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
December 14, 1974.
December 14, 1974.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Edward Still, Birmingham, Jack Drake, Drake, Knowles & Still, Tuscaloosa, Ala., for plaintiff.
Robert D. Segall, Hobbs, Copeland, Franco & Screws, Montgomery, Ala., for intervening plaintiff.
William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., and Frank P. Ralph, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Ala., Montgomery, Ala., for defendant William J. Baxley.
George B. Azar, Azar Campbell & Azar, Montgomery, Ala., for defendant Perry Hooper.
William J. Baxley, Atty. Gen., of Ala., and Robert L. Humphries, Asst. Atty. Gen., of Ala., Dept. of Mental Health, for defendants Taylor Hardin and Fred L. Huggins.
Before RIVES, Circuit Judge, and JOHNSON and VARNER, District Judges.
United States District Court, M. D. Alabama, N. D.
JOHNSON, District Judge:
The named plaintiff and intervening plaintiff,1 suing on their own behalf and as representatives of a class composed of persons who are now, or who may be, involuntarily civilly committed in Alabama, seek to have three statutes2 authorizing involuntary commitment declared unconstitutional on their face and as applied and to have their enforcement...
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