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California’s Mental Care Upheld

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A Los Angeles Superior Court judge today upheld the state’s management and funding of mental health care, ending a legal challenge claiming patients were unconstitutionally hospitalized when they should be treated in community settings.

The 13-page written decision by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Max F. Deutz ended a six-year-old class action civil suit brought by state and county mental health associations after former Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr. reduced his proposed 1979-80 budget for community treatment facilities from $160 million to $24 million.

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