Jean P. LYNCH, etc., Plaintiffs,
Jessie M. Hughes, et al., Intervening Plaintiffs,
v.
Jeff SESSIONS, as Attorney General of the State of Alabama; Walker Hobbie, Jr., as Probate Judge of Montgomery, Alabama, and as a representative of all other Alabama probate judges; Virginia A. Rogers, as Commissioner of the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Defendants.
United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 30, 1996.
September 30, 1996.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Robert David Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A., Montgomery, AL, David Ferleger, Philadelphia, PA, Ralph I. Knowles, Jr., Doffermyre, Shields, Canfield & Knowles, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiff Jean P. Lynch.
Robert David Segall, Copeland, Franco, Screws & Gill, P.A., Montgomery, AL, for intervenor-plaintiff Jesse M. Hughes.
William L. Irons, Birmingham, AL, for intervenor-plaintiff Ronald Gibson.
William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for defendant Jeff Sessions.
Mary Elizabeth Culberson, William H. Pryor, Jr., Office of the Attorney General, Montgomery, AL, for defendant Walker Hobbie, Jr.
Algert S. Agricola, Jr., Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Montgomery, AL, Gregory Dale Crosslin, James D. McLaughlin, Rebecca W. Pritchett, Sasser & Littleton, P.C., Montgomery, AL, Charles B. Campbell, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff & Brandt, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, G.R. (Rick) Trawick, Department of Mental Health & Mental Retardation, Bureau of Legal Services, Montgomery, AL, for defendant Virginia A. Rogers.
Before COX, Circuit Judge, and HANCOCK and ALBRITTON, District Judges.
United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, Northern Division.
Memorandum Opinion
ALBRITTON, District Judge.
This case is presently before the Court on the Defendants' Motion, filed on November 29, 1991, to Vacate or Modify the Permanent Injunction initially entered in this case on December 14, 1974. The Defendants predicate their Motion to Vacate on the 1991 enactment of amendments to the Code of Alabama providing for the involuntary commitment and recommitment of mentally ill persons.
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