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EX PARTE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

85-951.

511 So.2d 181 (1987)

Ex parte DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, State of Alabama (Re Ex parte Dept. of Mental Health). (In the matter of ANONYMOUS).

Supreme Court of Alabama.

May 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.R. Trawick and Patricia Shaner, Montgomery, for petitioner.

James Ward, Joel M. Nomberg, and Kathleen Nemish, Dothan, for respondent.

ADAMS, Justice.

We granted certiorari in this case to answer the following questions:

1. Does a juvenile court have the authority to commit a child to the custody of the Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation and thereafter to place the child in a private psychiatric facility and order that all costs for care and treatment be paid from State funds appropriated to the Department?

2. Did the fact that the child was in the custody of the Department...

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