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Ninth Circuit· 9/10/1981

Doe v. Gallinot

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  • 657 F.2d 1017

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  • explaining that in a section 5150 deten- tion “[t]he initial 72 hours of detention is justified as an emer- gency treatment. It is recognized that a probable cause hearing cannot be arranged immediately.”
  • rejecting the State’s argument that “habeas corpus review on demand adequately protects against erroneous” commitment
  • upholding a district court’s finding that a seventy-two-hour detention under Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code section 5150 is justified as an emergency measure, provided a probable cause hearing is held shortly thereafter
  • “It is the state, after all, which must ultimately justify depriving a person of a protected liberty in-terest_”

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