Case: Department of Mental Hygiene of California v. Kirchner, Administratrix
Abbreviation: Department of Mental Hygiene v. Kirchner
Decision Date: 1964-10-12
Docket Number: No. 111
Citation: 379 U.S. 811
Volume: 379
Reporter: United States Reports
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Parties: Department of Mental Hygiene of California v. Kirchner, Administratrix.
Judges: 
Pages: 811–811

Head Matter:
No. 111.
Department of Mental Hygiene of California v. Kirchner, Administratrix.
Stanley Mosk, Attorney General of California,- Harold B. Haas, Assistant Attorney General, and Elizabeth Palmer, John Carl Porter, and Asher Rubin, Deputy Attorneys General, for petitioner. John Walton Dinkelspiel for respondent. Briefs of amici curiae, in support of the petition, were filed by William G. Clark, Attorney General of Illinois, Richard E. Friedman, First Assistant Attorney General, and Raymond S. Sarnow and Jerome F. Goldberg, Assistant Attorneys General, for the State of Illinois; Walter E. Alessandroni, Attorney General of Pennsylvania, and Edgar R. Casper, Deputy Attorney General, for the Commonwealth of Pen ylvania; Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney General of New York, Paxton Blair, Solicitor General, and Ruth Kessler Toch, Assistant Solicitor General, for the State of New York; Clarence A. H. Meyer, Attorney General of Nebraska, and Mel Kammerlohr, Assistant Attorney General, for the State of Nebraska; and by Helgi Johanneson., Attorney General of North Dakota, and Wesley N. Harry, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the State of North Dakota.

Opinion:
Supreme Court of California. Certiorari granted.