Burlington Overall Mfg. Co. v. Commissioner

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• holding continued detention of minor violative of Mental Health Service for Minors Act because of failure to file petition for additional 14-day detention
• noting “ ‘due process protections are necessary to insure [a] state-created right is not arbitrarily abrogated’ ” in civil commitment context (internal quotation marks omitted) (quoting Vitek, 445 U.S. at 489)
• considering scholarly articles attached to a brief 3 The appendices are as follows: Directive #12-08 from the Administrative Office of the Courts re: Probation Child Support Enforcement (Appendix 7
• government acts arbitrarily when it denies a properly filed land use permit without lawful authority
• \involuntary commitment represents `a massive curtailment of liberty'\
• “involuntary commitment represents ‘a massive curtailment of liberty’ ”

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