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IN RE DEBRA B.

495 A.2d 781 (1985)

In re DEBRA B.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided July 11, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cloutier, Joyce, Dumas & David, Paul R. Dumas, Jr. (orally), Rumford, for plaintiff.

Preti, Flaherty & Beliveau, Albert J. Beliveau, Jr., Franklin A. Poe (orally), Rumford, for defendant.

Before NICHOLS, ROBERTS, VIOLETTE, WATHEN, GLASSMAN and SCOLNIK, JJ.

SCOLNIK, Justice.

Debra B. appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court affirming the District Court's order granting her mother's petition for a determination that sterilization is in Debra's best interest. On appeal, Debra contends that the petitioner did not prove by clear and convincing evidence that sterilization is in her best interest, as the Due Process in Sterilization Act requires.1 We have carefully reviewed all the evidence...

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