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MAHONEY v. LENSINK

(13605)

213 Conn. 548 (1990)

RICHARD E. MAHONEY, SR., ADMINISTRATOR (ESTATE OF RICHARD E. MAHONEY, JR.), ET AL. v. BRIAN LENSINK, COMMISSIONER OF MENTAL RETARDATION, ET AL.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decision released January 30, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul J. Lahey, assistant attorney general, with whom were Richard J. Lynch, assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, Clarine Nardi Riddle, attorney general, Carl J. Schuman, former assistant attorney general, and Andrea Gaines, assistant attorney general, for the appellants-appellees (defendants).

William B. Wynne, for the appellees-appellants (plaintiffs).

Lawrence W. Berliner filed a brief for the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Handicapped and Developmentally Disabled Persons as amicus curiae.

PETERS, C. J., SHEA, GLASS, COVELLO and HULL, JS.

PETERS, C. J.

This appeal concerns the availability and the scope of the remedy afforded by General Statutes § 17-206k to a voluntary patient in a state mental hospital who claims a deprivation of personal, property and civil rights under General Statutes § 17-206b and a violation of his right to humane and dignified treatment under General Statutes § 17-206c.1 The plaintiffs, Richard E. Mahoney, individually and in his...

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