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Fla. Stat. § 394.451 (2025)
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394.451 Short title.—This part shall be known as “The Florida Mental Health Act” or “The Baker Act.”
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 91
cases (16 in the last 5 years), 1976–2025 · leading case: Sochor v. State, 883 So. 2d 766 (Fla. 2004).
Sochor v. State, 883 So. 2d 766 (Fla. 2004). “Although he did not believe Sochor met the requirements for involuntary hospitalization under the Baker Act, see §§ 394.451-.4789, Fla. Stat. (2003), he did believe that Sochor was "extremely dangerous to the public.”
Hudson v. State, 825 So. 2d 460 (Fla. 1st DCA 2002). “who do not have a mental disease or defect that renders them appropriate for involuntary treatment under the Baker Act (§§ 394.451-394.4789, Fla.Stat.)." § 394.910, Fla.”
MW v. Davis, 756 So. 2d 90 (Fla. 2000). “See § 394.451, Fla. Stat. (1997). [2] No information concerning M.”
Harold Crane v. Lifemark Hospitals, Inc., 898 F.3d 1130 (11th Cir. 2018). “On July 17, 2011, the Miami-Dade *1133 Police Department responded to a call that Crane was suicidal and transported Crane to PGH for an involuntary commitment examination pursuant to the Baker Act, Fla. Stat. § 394.451 , et seq. 1 During a Baker Act evaluation, a health care…”
Keith Robert Caldwell, Sr. v. U.S. Dep't of Vets. Affairs, 646 F. App'x 842 (11th Cir. 2016). “As a result, Caldwell sought to be transferred to the Bay Pines psychiatric ward under the Florida Mental Health Act, Fla. Stat. § 394.451 , et seq. However, according to Caldwell, Bay Pines stonewalled his efforts to transfer for mental-health treatment Caldwell also alleged…”
Ermini v. Scott, 249 F. Supp. 3d 1253 (M.D. Fla. 2017). “” Fla. Stat. § 394.451 et seq. The Baker Act'allows the voluntary and involuntary institutionalization and examination of an individual suffering from a mental illness and who is considered a harm to self, a harm to others or is self-neglectful.”
Doe v. City of Miami Gardens, 389 F. Supp. 3d 1118 (S.D. Fla. 2019). “See Fla. Stat. §§ 394.451 et seq. The Court is aware of cases categorizing sexual assault by a police officer as a "nonconsensual violation of bodily integrity which is protected by substantive due process" rather than as an unreasonable seizure.”
Grimsley v. State, 830 So. 2d 118 (Fla. 2d DCA 2002). “See § 394.451, Fla. Stat. (2000). Ellis was not sure when this occurred.”
Pullen v. State, 802 So. 2d 1113 (Fla. 2001). “See §§ 394.451-394.4789, Fla. Stat. (2000). Pullen's appointed counsel from the public defender's office filed an Anders [1] brief, stating that he could discern no reversible error in the proceedings below.”
Attorney Ad Litem for DK v. Parents of DK, 780 So. 2d 301 (Fla. 4th DCA 2001). “[3] See § 394.451-.4789, Fla.Stat. (2000).”
Doe v. State, 210 So. 3d 154 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016). “The Baker Act, §§ 394.451-.47891, Fla. Stat. (2015), also known as the Florida Mental Health Act, establishes a process by which individuals believed to have "mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders" may be civilly committed for mental health 1We have consolidated these…”
In Re Commitment of Rodgers, 875 So. 2d 737 (Fla. 2d DCA 2004). “To advance his equal protection claim on appeal, he argues that the Florida courts have recognized a prohibition against compelled testimony for defendants in other types of civil proceedings, such as the civil commitment for mental health treatment under the Baker Act, section…”
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