The president of a Charlottesville group formed to protect civil liberties promised Wednesday that a federal suit challenging the involuntary commitment of a Marine veteran will move forward.
U.S. District Court Judge
Henry E. Hudson earlier Wednesday entered an order that narrows to a
single person the defendants who had been named in a suit brought by The
Rutherford Institute on behalf of Brandon Raub, a Marine Corps veteran
and Chesterfield County resident.
The
suit filed earlier this year originally had designated more than a
dozen defendants, named and unnamed, who played a role in locating Raub,
taking him into custody and subjecting him to a psychiatric evaluation
at a Hopewell hospital.
Raub, then
26, was then ordered transferred to a veterans facility in Salem where
he was to undergo up to 30 days of involuntary treatment.
“The
case is not at an end and The Rutherford Institute and its affiliate
attorneys will continue to seek to vindicate Raub’s constitutional
rights,” Rutherford president John W. Whitehead said in a statement
released Wednesday.
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