BIRL v. WALLIS

Civ. A. No. 83-T-809-N.

633 F.Supp. 707 (1986)

Leroy BIRL, etc., Plaintiff, v. Kenneth WALLIS, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

April 30, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg Bass, Evergreen Legal Services, Longview, Wash., Abigail Turner, Legal Services Corp. of Alabama, Inc., Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff.

G.R. Trawick, R. Emmett Poundstone, III, Asst. Attys. Gen., Alabama Dept. of Mental Health, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.


MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

In this action, plaintiff Leroy Birl challenges the constitutionality of the procedures used by the Alabama Department of Mental Health to reconfine individuals who have been conditionally released from state mental hospitals after initial involuntary commitments. Defendant Kenneth Wallis is the court-appointed receiver of the Department of Mental Health; defendant Charles A. Fetner is the director of...

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