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IN RE FEENSTER

No. 86-985.

561 A.2d 997 (1989)

In re Michael FEENSTER, Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 20, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion E. Baurley, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, with whom Gregory L. Lensbower, appointed by the court, was on the brief, for appellant.

Barbara J. Matthews, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, and Ann O'Regan Keary, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and FERREN, Associate Judge, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.

FERREN, Associate Judge:

Appellant asks this court to vacate a trial court order revoking his outpatient commitment at St. Elizabeths Hospital and committing him indefinitely as an inpatient. He argues that the hospitalization procedures leading up to that revocation violated the District of Columbia Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill Act (the Act), D.C.Code §§ 21-501 to 21-592 (1981 & 1988 Supp.). More specifically...

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