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WILLIAMS v. MEREDITH

Nos. 79-301, 79-302 and 79-340.

407 A.2d 569 (1979)

Wanda R. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. Charles MEREDITH, M. D., and Marshall Ruffin, M. D., Appellees. Robert A. BEASLEY, Jr., Appellant, v. Charles MEREDITH, M. D., and Thomas W. Murphy, M. D., Appellees. Andrew D. McGAUGHEY, Appellant, v. Charles MEREDITH, M. D., and Archangel D'Amore, M. D., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 2, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Mertens, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mark J. Biros, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed, John A. Terry, Paul L. Knight (in No. 79-302), and John Brooks Harrington (in No. 79-301), Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellees.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KERN and FERREN, Associate Judges.

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Appellants, who have been deemed to be mentally ill and a danger to themselves and to others, were hospitalized involuntarily under an emergency commitment procedure and are currently in confinement at Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Appellee Meredith is the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital. Appellees Ruffin, Murphy, and D'Amore are the physician-members of the Commission on Mental Health who made...

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