IN RE MARCIA E.

Docket: And-12-267

58 A.3d 1115 (2012)

2012 ME 139

In re MARCIA E.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: December 20, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey S. Dolley, Esq. , Dolley Law Firm, LLC, Lewiston, for appellant Marcia E.

William J. Schneider , Attorney General, and N. Paul Gauvreau , Asst. Atty. Gen., Office of Attorney General, Augusta, for appellee Department of Health and Human Services.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and LEVY, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.


LEVY, J.

[¶ 1] Marcia E. appeals from the District Court's (Lewiston, Oram, J.) judgment ordering her involuntary commitment following an emergency hospitalization at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center. Marcia contends that the Hospital's violation of the statutory procedure related to her emergency admission at the Hospital required the court to dismiss the Hospital's subsequent petition for her involuntary commitment. Because we conclude that the Hospital...

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