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PROJECT RELEASE v. PREVOST

No. 78 CV 1467 (ERN).

551 F.Supp. 1298 (1982)

PROJECT RELEASE, individually and on behalf of its members and all others similarly situated; Carrie Greene, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. James PREVOST, individually and as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene and Office of Mental Health; Ronald Gottlieb, individually and as Director of the Mental Health Information Service for the First Judicial Department; Alfred Besunder, individually and as Director of the Mental Health Information Service of the Second Judicial Department; James Donnelly, individually and as Director of the Mental Health Information Service for the Third Judicial Department; Kevin Kearney, individually and as Director of the Mental Health Information Service for the Fourth Judicial Department; Nicholas Dubner, individually and as Acting Director of Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. New York.

November 24, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher A. Hansen, Robert Levy, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York City, for plaintiffs; Bruce J. Ennis, New York City, of counsel.

Robert Abrams, Atty. Gen., State of New York by Robert S. Hammer, Anne Marsha Tannenbaum, Asst. Attys. Gen., New York City, for defendants; New York State Office of Mental Health by Jeffrey J. Sherrin, and John Aveni, Albany, N.Y., of counsel.

Rogovin, Stern & Huge by Joel I. Klein, Vicki C. Jackson, Ellen S. Silberman, Washington, D.C., and Edward M. Chikofsky, New York City, for the American Psychiatric Association, as amicus curiae.

MEMORANDUM OF DECISION AND ORDER

NEAHER, District Judge.

Project Release, a not-for-profit organization, and Carrie Greene, a State mental patient, brought this action to challenge the constitutionality of the voluntary, involuntary and emergency commitment procedures contained in New York Mental Hygiene Law (hereinafter "M.H.L.") §§ 9.13, 9.27, 9.39. Project Release is a self-help organization composed of current and former mental health patients...

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