In Re the Detention Swanson

How courts have described this case

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• ensuring continuing of care and protection of public safety are goals of the civil commitment law
• “The parties agree that the trial court had both personal and subject matter jurisdiction in this case up until the 72-hour period expired.”
• “[T]he 72-hour period begins upon a facility’s immediate provisional acceptance of a petition and person for detention.”
• had Legislature intended initial detention period to be measured in days rather than hours, it would have said so
• \`\the need to clarify the statutory scheme governing civil commitment is a matter of continuing and substantial public interest\'\
• “ ‘ “the need to clarify the statutory scheme governing civil commitment is a matter of continuing and substantial public interest” ’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).