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BIRL v. WALLIS

Civ. A. No. 83-T-809-N.

619 F.Supp. 481 (1985)

Leroy BIRL, etc., Plaintiff, v. Kenneth WALLIS, etc., et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D.

September 4, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greg Bass, Demopolis, Ala., Abigail Turner, Legal Services Corp. of Alabama, Inc. Mobile, Ala., for plaintiff.

G.R. Trawick, R. Emmett Poundstone, III, Asst. Attys. Gen., Alabama Dept. of Mental Health, Montgomery, Ala., for defendants.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

This lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of Alabama's mental health procedures for reconfining a person who has been involuntarily civilly committed to a state mental institution and then conditionally released. Plaintiff Leroy Birl has brought this lawsuit pursuant to 42 U.S. C.A. § 1983 against defendant Kenneth Wallis, court-appointed receiver and commissioner of the Alabama Department of...

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