# In Re Melton

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · November 6, 1989 · 565 A.2d 635

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9652524

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re Tommie Lee MELTON, Appellant
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** November 6, 1989
- **Citations:** 565 A.2d 635; 1989 D.C. App. LEXIS 226; 1989 WL 132200
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Mack
- **Judges:** Ferren, Schwelb, Mack
- **Cited by:** 7 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Red flag:** Vacated by In re Melton, 1990 D.C. App. LEXIS 311 (1990).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 0
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9652524

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding further objection unnecessary where the court “clearly indicat[ed] that he rejected the arguments raised by the objections”
- characterizing as “pyrrhic” legal victories that established the right for a mentally ill person not to be required to take medication essential to his or her mental health

## Opinion text

MACK, Associate Judge, Retired,
concurring:
For the reasons implicit in my concerns expressed in my opinion (but not embraced by the other panel members) in In the Matter of Gwendolyn Stokes, 546 A.2d 356 (D.C.1988), I am concurring in Judge Fer-ren’s opinion.

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