# Rennie v. Klein

> Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · October 13, 1983 · 720 F.2d 266

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/8917901

## Case

- **Full name:** John E. RENNIE v. Ann KLEIN, Commissioner of Human Services Michail Rotov, Director, Division of Mental Health and Executive Officer of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Max Pepernick, Acting Medical Director of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Edward Wallace, Assistant Administrator of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Josefina Bugaoan, Assistant Medical Director of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital. Appeal of John E. RENNIE, on behalf of himself and all others similarly situated, and Caroline Mauger, Eugenio Burgeos, Leon Rossi, Hazel Moncrief, Ernie Welker, Mary Jane Weiss, Margaret Mary McGrath, Joseph Kamienski, Intervenors, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated John E. RENNIE v. Ann KLEIN, Commissioner of Human Services: Michail Rotov, Director, Division of Mental Health and Executive Officer of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Max Pepernick, Acting Medical Director of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Edward Wallace, Assistant Administrator of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital Josefina Bugaoan, Assistant Medical Director of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital. Appeal of Ann KLEIN and Michail Rotov
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- **Decided:** October 13, 1983
- **Citations:** 720 F.2d 266
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Gibbons
- **Judges:** Adams, Disert, Garth, Gibbons, Hunter, III, Seitz, Whom
- **Cited by:** 59 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- acknowledging that Supreme Court declined to adopt a “least intrusive means” analysis in Youngberg

## Opinion text

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge, dissenting:
I join in Judge Weis’ opinion setting forth the legal standards applicable by virtue of the fourteenth amendment to the involuntary imposition of medical treatment by persons acting under color of state law. Unlike Judge Weis, however, I dissent from the judgment insofar as it modifies the preliminary injunction which was entered by the trial court. The reasons for my dissent are set out in the opinion which I filed when the case was first considered by the full court. See Rennie v. Klein, 653 F.2d 836, 865-70 (3d Cir.1981) (in banc), Gibbons, J., dissenting. They need not be repeated. I would affirm the district court in all respects.

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