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MTR. OF EICHNER

102 Misc.2d 184 (1979)

In the Matter of the Application of Philip K. Eichner, Petitioner, For an Order Appointing Him as Committee of the Person and Property of Joseph C. Fox. Joseph C. Fox, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Nassau County.

December 6, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Levine and Michael B. Grossman for petitioner. Robert C. Minion, guardian ad litem. Furey & Mooney (Raymond J. Furey of counsel), for Nassau Hospital. Denis Dillon, District Attorney (William C. Donnino and Edward W. McCarty, III, of counsel). Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Sall J. Sidoti of counsel). Alfred Besunder for Mental Health Information Service. Hahn, Hahn & Ford for Catholic Lawyers Guild of the Diocese of Rockville Centre, amicus curiae. A. Lawrence Washburn, Jr., for Human Life Amendment Group, amicus curiae. Thomas J. Dillon for New York State Right to Life Committee, Inc., amicus curiae.

ROBERT C. MEADE, J.

This case presents an unusually complicated legal problem without precedent in the law of this State — whether a committee of the person should be appointed for an individual who was recently of sound mind but who has allegedly become incompetent as a result of severe physical maladies and whether that committee should be authorized to cause the withdrawal from the incompetent of...

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