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ROGERS v. COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH

390 Mass. 489 (1983)

458 N.E.2d 308

RUBIE ROGERS & others vs. COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH & others.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Suffolk.

November 29, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leah S. Crothers, Special Assistant Attorney General, for the defendants.

Richard Cole (Robert Burdick with him) for the plaintiffs.

The following submitted briefs:

Donald N. Bershoff, Geoffrey P. Miller & Paul R. Friedman, of the District of Columbia, for American Psychological Association, amicus curiae.

Joel I. Klein, of the District of Columbia, for American Psychiatric Association & another, amici curiae.

Robert H. Weber, Jonathan Brant, Cynthia Carr & Richard Castelnuovo, for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee, amicus curiae.

Robert M. Levy, of New York, & John Reinstein, for American Orthopsychiatric Association & others, amici curiae.

Joseph H. Rodriguez, Laura M. LeWinn & J. Benedict Centifanti, of New Jersey, for New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate, Division of Mental Health Advocacy, amicus curiae.

Present: HENNESSEY, C.J., WILKINS, LIACOS, ABRAMS, & O'CONNOR, JJ.

ABRAMS, J.

We are asked to respond to nine questions certified by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit which focus on the right of involuntarily committed mental patients to refuse treatment, and the standards and procedures which must be followed to treat those patients with antipsychotic medication.3 The basic conclusions we reach are that a committed mental patient is competent...

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