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CONSERVATORSHIP OF FADLEY

Docket No. 31005.

159 Cal.App.3d 440 (1984)

205 Cal. Rptr. 572

Conservatorship of the Person of BERTHA FADLEY. SAN DIEGO COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF MENTAL HEALTH, Petitioner and Respondent, v. BERTHA FADLEY, Objector and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Fourth District, Division One.

August 22, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Michele Sacks Lowenstein and Leahy & Lowenstein for Objector and Appellant.

Lloyd M. Harmon, Jr., County Counsel, Howard P. Brody, Chief Deputy County Counsel, and Susan J. Boyle, Deputy County Counsel, for Petitioner and Respondent.

OPINION

STANIFORTH, J.

The question posed by this appeal is whether a trial court may review a mentally ill patient's treating physician's decision electroconvulsive therapy is warranted, in the course of determining the patient's capacity to give informed consent to that therapy. (Welf. & Inst. Code, §§ 5326.5, 5326.7, subd. (f).1) The statutory...

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