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MATTER OF COMMITMENT OF B.S.

213 N.J. Super. 243 (1986)

517 A.2d 146

IN THE MATTER OF THE COMMITMENT OF B.S.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided September 30, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gross & Novak, attorneys for appellant, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (William P. Isele, on the brief).

W. Cary Edwards, Attorney General, attorney for respondent Division of Mental Health and Hospitals (Michael R. Clancy, Deputy Attorney General, of counsel; Carol L. Widemon, Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

No brief was filed on behalf of respondents Middlesex County, B.S. and Arlene Reiter, court-appointed guardian for B.S.

Before Judges MORTON I. GREENBERG, J.H. COLEMAN and COHEN.

The opinion of the court was delivered by COHEN, J.A.D.

B.S. has been a patient at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital ("University Hospital") since July 1984. University Hospital applied for the involuntary commitment of B.S. pursuant to N.J.S.A. 30:4-25 et seq. and R. 4:74-7.1 The Chancery Division held that even though B.S. suffered from mental illness, she was not shown to be dangerous to herself or others...

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