In Re Necessity for the Hospitalization of Heather R.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a failure to interview Heather was prejudicial because evidence “was at best only minimally sufficient to support the master’s probable cause finding”
• explaining that “a screening investigation should omit an interview with the respondent only if such an interview would not be reasonably possible”
• applying public interest exception to reach merits of due process challenge to expired evaluation order
• vacating an evaluation order on statutory basis and therefore declining to address appellant's due process argument
• determining failure to interview respondent was not harmless error

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).