The following excerpt is from Coates, In re, 173 N.E.2d 797, 213 N.Y.S.2d 74, 9 N.Y.2d 242 (N.Y. 1961):
Consequently, if the statute before us contained no provision affording appellant an opportunity to litigate fully the question of her mental illness and the propriety of the proceedings which led to her confinement, it would unquestionably be violative of due process. Such was the case in People ex rel. Ordway v. St. Saviour's Sanitarium, 34 App.Div. 363, 56 N.Y.S. 431, supra, which involved the commitment of an inebriate under the provisions of chapter 467 of the Laws of 1892, and upon which appellant
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