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IN RE APPLICATIONS FOR THE COMMITMENT OF S.L.

94 N.J. 128 (1983)

462 A.2d 1252

IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATIONS FOR THE COMMITMENT OF S.L., A.F., P.M., F.G., R.B., E.A., C.S., J.A. AND R.G., TO THE GREYSTONE PARK PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL.

The Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided July 20, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura M. LeWinn, Acting Director, Division of Mental Health Advocacy, argued the cause for appellants S.L., et al. (Joseph H. Rodriguez, Public Advocate, attorney; Michael L. Perlin, Special Counsel to the Public Advocate and Ivy Starr Minely, Designated Counsel, on the briefs).

Paula R. Goldwater, Assistant County Counsel, argued the cause for respondent County of Essex (David H. Ben-Asher, Essex County Counsel, attorney).

Steven Wallach, Deputy Attorney General, argued the cause for intervenor-respondent Attorney General of New Jersey (Irwin I. Kimmelman, Attorney General of New Jersey, attorney; James J. Ciancia, Assistant Attorney General, of counsel).

The opinion of the Court was delivered by HANDLER, J.

The nine consolidated cases before us focus our attention on the plight of individuals who have been committed in mental institutions for most of their adult lives.1 In seven of the cases, a court determined that after decades in mental hospitals the appellants were no longer committable, although they remained incapable of carrying on an independent and self-sufficient life. In the...

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