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CHANCERY CLERK OF CHICKASAW CTY., MISS. v. WALLACE

No. 79-2323.

646 F.2d 151 (1981)

CHANCERY CLERK OF CHICKASAW COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI, et al., Defendants-Appellants, v. Robert WALLACE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit A

March 26, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Timmie Hancock, Jackson, Miss., for defendants-appellants.

Paul R. Friedman, Joseph F. Vargyas, Robert Plotkin, Mental Health Law Project, Washington, D. C., for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before COLEMAN, RUBIN and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

JERRE S. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

The motion for rehearing is denied. The opinion for the Court in this case, slip opinion 3507, is withdrawn and the following opinion is substituted.

This case presents an interlocutory appeal from significant pretrial rulings in a class action challenging the constitutionality of Mississippi's procedures for the involuntary commitment of adults to state mental institutions.

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