Gross v. Pomerleau

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• such a deprivation can create \a stigma of mental illness which can be as debilitating as that of criminal conviction\
• such a deprivation can create “a stigma of mental illness which can be as debilitating as that of criminal conviction”
• “common sense suggests that both procedures were intended to deal with the same type of individual, i.e., the mentally disturbed person, although in different contexts”
• “At issue, then, is whether plaintiff’s behavior at the time of the arrest was sufficient to justify a finding of probable cause for her eventual commitment to the Unit.”
• “Commitment to an Evaluation Unit, even for a day, involves a loss of liberty, privacy, free association and could well have the effect of creating a stigma against the person confined.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).