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IN RE JOHNSON

No. 93-FM-1094.

699 A.2d 362 (1997)

In re Stanley R. JOHNSON, Respondent.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 7, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lois R. Goodman, Newark, NJ, for appellant.

Burton Penn, for appellee Mrs. Geneva Johnson.

Stephen H. Glickman, Gregory H. Gust, and Arthur B. Spitzer, Washington, DC, filed a brief on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union as amicus curiae.

Richard F. Gondelman, Assistant Corporation Counsel, with whom Charles F.C. Ruff, Corporation Counsel, and Janet L. Maher, Deputy Corporation Counsel, filed a brief on behalf of the Corporation Counsel as amicus curiae.

Before KING, RUIZ and REID, Associate Judges.

RUIZ, Associate Judge:

Stanley Johnson was held in civil contempt of a court order requiring him to submit to a psychiatric examination at the Commission on Mental Health pursuant to a private, nonemergency petition for judicial hospitalization filed under the Ervin Act, D.C.Code § 21-541(a)(2) (1997).1 On appeal, Mr. Johnson alleges that the Ervin Act is unconstitutional in that it violates his rights to privacy and due process of...

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