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BIRL v. WALLIS

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

649 F.Supp. 868 (1986)

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

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

July 24, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg Bass, Evergreen Legal Services, Longview, Washington, Abigail Turner, Legal Services Corp. of Alabama, Inc., Mobile, Ala., Larry T. Menefee, Blacksher, Menefee & Stein, Birmingham, Ala., for plaintiff.

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

ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This lawsuit 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 civil involuntary commitments. The action is now before the court on the May 14, 1986, motion for an award of attorney fees and expenses filed by plaintiff Leroy Birl. Based on the evidence and briefs...

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