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  • Title: Birl v. Wallis.
    Author: U.S. District Court, M.D. Alabama, N.D..
    Journal: Fed Suppl; 1986 Apr 30; 633():707-12. PubMed ID: 11648554.
    Abstract:
    The United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama held that a resident who is released on a trial visit from a state mental hospital after an initial involuntary commitment may not be reconfined without a new commitment hearing. Previously, the same court had found Alabama's procedures for returning residents from trial visits in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment. Constitutional guarantees of due process require that a patient be unconditionally released once the grounds for the initial confinement cease to exist, and reconfinement cannot take place without sufficient justification.
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