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MATTER OF DeLOATCH

No. 86-982.

532 A.2d 1343 (1987)

In the Matter of Myra DeLOATCH, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 5, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Klein, Public Defender Service, with whom Sharon Styles, Public Defender Service, was on brief, for appellant.

Janet Maher, Staff Atty., St. Elizabeths Hosp., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty., were on brief, for appellee.

Before MACK, FERREN and TERRY, Associate Judges.

PER CURIAM:

This appeal arises under the District of Columbia Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act, (D.C.Code §§ 21-501 to -592 (1981)) (popularly known as "the Ervin Act"). Appellant assigns as error the trial court's failure to provide her an opportunity to contest her emergency hospitalization within 24 hours of her request for a hearing. We hold that the trial court's failure to conduct the requested hearing within 24 hours violated the Act and that...

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