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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. PRYOR

No. 10868.

366 A.2d 141 (1976)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA and John R. Risher, Jr., Corporation Counsel, D.C., Petitioners, v. The Honorable William C. PRYOR, Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 12, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Calvin Golumbic, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., with whom John R. Risher, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Louis P. Robbins, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the petition, for petitioners.

Frederick B. Abramson, Washington, D. C., for respondent.

Before NEBEKER and HARRIS, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Chief Judge, Retired.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

The issue presented by this petition for extraordinary relief (28 U.S.C. § 1651 (1970)) is whether a judge of the Superior Court has the power to appoint the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia to represent a private petitioner in an involuntary civil commitment proceeding. In each of the two proceedings which gave rise to this matter, a parent filed a petition with the Commission on Mental Health for the involuntary civil...

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