In Re Christopher K.

How courts have described this case

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• providing care to the mentally ill and protecting society from dangerous persons are legitimate state interests
• “The general rule of statutory construction is that the word ‘shall’ is a command which requires mandatory enforcement.” (quotation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).