STATE EX REL. DANDOY v. SUPERIOR COURT

No. 14743-PR.

127 Ariz. 184 (1980)

619 P.2d 12

STATE of Arizona ex rel. Suzanne DANDOY, as Director, Department of Health Services, and State of Arizona ex rel. R. Robertson Kenner, as Superintendent, Arizona State Hospital, Petitioners, v. SUPERIOR COURT of the State of Arizona, In and For the COUNTY OF PIMA, and Lillian S. Fisher, a Judge thereof, Respondents, and Anonymous, a minor, Respondent and Real Party in Interest.

Supreme Court of Arizona, In Banc.

June 4, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Corbin, Atty. Gen. by Paul A. Katz, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles S. Pierson, Asst. Atty. Gen., Phoenix, for petitioners.

Stephen D. Neely, Pima County Atty. by Howard L. Baldwin, Deputy County Atty., Tucson, for respondents.

Richard S. Oseran, Pima County Public Defender by Thomas Althaus, Asst. Public Defender, Tucson, for respondent Minor.


HOLOHAN, Vice Chief Justice.

Petitioners brought a special action in the Court of Appeals, Division Two, challenging the authority of the Respondent Juvenile Court Judge to order the continued involuntary hospitalization of the respondent minor (real party in interest). The Court of Appeals determined that the juvenile court had exceeded its jurisdiction and ordered that the juvenile be discharged from the hospital and released to the custody of either the Pima County...

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