Court Opinion

ID: 9591378
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 00:03:51.668183+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:01:10.511072
License: Public Domain

RIGGS, J.,
concurring.
I concur with the majority and write only to point out that there is no showing, on this record, that ORS 426.005(2)(c) creates an impermissible classification that distinguishes between persons who have been committed involuntarily twice in the past three years and those who have been voluntary hospital patients only because their financial circumstances were more favorable. This record, therefore, does not support a holding that the statutory expanded criteria scheme violates either Article I, section 20, of the Oregon Constitution, or the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. Whether an appropriate record would support such a holding awaits another case.