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MATTER OF HARRIS v. ROBERTS

91 A.D.2d 1141 (1983)

In the Matter of Warren Harris, as Assistant Director of St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, Respondent, v. Eleanor Roberts, Appellant. (And Two Other Related Actions.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

January 20, 1983

Respondent does not quarrel with the established law that a court may exercise its powers, as parens patriae, to authorize medical treatment on behalf of an individual where the interests of the individual so warrant and there is clear and convincing proof that the individual is not competent to make a rational decision (see Matter of Storar, 52 N.Y.2d 363). Rather, she contends...

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