In re Contempt of Wabash Valley Hosp., Inc., 827 N.E.2d 50 (Ind. Ct. App. 2005)
In a case characterized as exemplifying "a national trend," the Indiana Court of Appeals held that a trial court has the authority to determine that hospital officials violated the law when they refused to admit a man deemed mentally ill and dangerous and judicially committed for a seventy-two-hour emergency detention. However, the appellate court vacated a contempt order and ordered a rehearing because the trial judge failed to give hospital officials an opportunity to explain their decision to deny admission...