{"id":10883,"date":"2024-08-18T21:42:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10883"},"modified":"2024-08-18T21:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T01:43:13","slug":"extension-of-involuntary-commitment-reversed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10883","title":{"rendered":"Extension of Involuntary Commitment Reversed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An extension of an involuntary commitment under section 303 of the Mental Health Procedures Act, 50 Pa.C.S. 7303, requires clear and convincing evidence that the person is a danger to herself and others.  The commitment order is not moot and is appealable even though the patient is no longer in custody because the sufficiency of evidence for a temporary commitment is a legal question that is &#8220;capable of repetition and yet apt to evade review.&#8221;  In this case, the testimony of the doctor showed only &#8220;the mere presence of mental illness&#8221; and insufficient facts to prove a danger of self-harm.  <em>In re: J.G.<\/em>, ___ A.3d ____, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Superior\/out\/J-S46044-23o%20-%20106030679276850952.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">2024 PA Super 173<\/a> (8\/8\/2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An extension of an involuntary commitment under section 303 of the Mental Health Procedures Act, 50 Pa.C.S. 7303, requires clear and convincing evidence that the person is a danger to herself and others. The commitment order is not moot and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/?p=10883\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[341,299],"class_list":["post-10883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinions","tag-involuntary-commitment","tag-mootness","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10911,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10883\/revisions\/10911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.evans-legal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}