DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HYGIENE OF CALIFORNIA v. KIRCHNER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stanley Mosk, Attorney General of California, Harold B. Haas, Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth Palmer, John Carl Porter, and Asher Rubin, Deputy Attorneys General, for petitioner. John Walton Dinkelspiel for respondent. Briefs of amici curiae, in support of the petition, were filed by William G. Clark, Attorney General of Illinois, Richard E. Friedman, First Assistant Attorney General, and Raymond S. Sarnow and Jerome F. Goldberg, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Illinois; Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and Edgar R. Casper, Deputy Attorney General, for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Paxton Blair, Solicitor General, and Ruth Kessler Toch, Assistant Solicitor General, for the State of New York; Clarence A.H. Meyer, Attorney General of Nebraska, and Mel Kammerlohr, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Nebraska; and by Helgi Johanneson, Attorney General of North Dakota, and Wesley N. Harry, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of North Dakota.