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WYATT BY AND THROUGH RAWLINS v. KING

Civ. A. No. 3195-N.

773 F.Supp. 1508 (1991)

Ricky WYATT, By and Through his Aunt and Legal Guardian Mrs. W.C. RAWLINS, Jr., et al., Plaintiffs, Diane Martin, et al., Plaintiff Intervenors, v. Royce G. KING, as Commissioner of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, and the State of Alabama Mental Health Officer, et al., Defendants, United States of America, et al., Amici Curiae.

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

July 22, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ira Burnim, Mental Health Law Project, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff Wyatt.

R. Emmett Poundstone, III, and Rick Trawick, Ala. Dept. of Mental Health, Montgomery, Ala., Joel Kline, Christopher Cerf, Washington, D.C., for King and Dept. of Mental Health.

Andrew J. Barrick and Mitchell W. Dale, and Pamela Chin, Special Litigation Section, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Civ. Rights Div., Washington, D.C., for U.S.

Byrd R. Latham, Patton, Latham, Legge & Cole, Athens, Ala., for Gunter, Steagall and Brassell.

David Ferleger, Philadelphia, Pa., Reuben Cook, Edward Stevens, Victoria Farr, and Donald Tipper, Ala. Disabilities Advocacy Pro., Tuscaloosa, Ala., for intervenors Martin, et al.

Peter G. Thompson, Sandra Lord, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Algert Agricola, Mark Montiel, and David Byrne, Montgomery, Ala., for State defendants.

R. David Christy, Montgomery, Ala., for King.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

MYRON H. THOMPSON, Chief Judge.

In 1974, then-Chief United States District Judge Frank M. Johnson, Jr., writing on behalf of a three-judge district court, found that Alabama's procedures for involuntary civil commitment of the mentally ill to state institutions did not comport with the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Lynch v. Baxley, 386 F.Supp. 378...

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