MENTAL HYGIENE v. DOLAN


89 Misc.2d 1003 (1977)

State of New York, Department of Mental Hygiene, Plaintiff, v. Robert Dolan, Defendant.

Civil Court of the City of New York, Special Term, New York County.

March 15, 1977


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Attorney-General (Richard P. Eisenberg of counsel), for plaintiff. Boeggeman, George & Jannace, P. C. (James R. Jannace of counsel), for defendant. Hyman Clurfeld, Augustus M. Jacobs, Jack Bernstein and George Heymann for New York State Association For Retarded Children, Inc., amicus curiae.


RICHARD S. LANE, J.

The battle for greater public awareness of and responsibility for the fate of the mentally retarded has been joined for a 100 years or more. As in the case of so many other social problems, the battlefield has shifted in recent years from the halls of academe and the houses of Legislature to the courts. In New York it has usually been the Judges of the Family Court, the Federal courts, and the appropriate appellate tribunals who have...

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