Briggs v. Arafeh

How later courts describe this case

• holding forty-five day commitment to hospital for mental illness on physician’s finding of dangerousness not to violate due process because of availability of judicial review after forty-five days
• authorizing emergency commitment up to forty-five days based on physician’s certification without hearing
• summarily affirming Logan v. Arafeh, 346 F.Supp. 1265, 1269 (D.Conn.1972), which held that a forty-five-day period was not unreasonable when the purposes of examination and preparation were considered
• 45 day detention of person certified by a physician not to be a danger to himself or others prior to judicial determination of validity of his confinement was not unreasonably long