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BOUVIA v. SUPERIOR COURT

Docket No. B019134.

179 Cal.App.3d 1127 (1986)

225 Cal. Rptr. 297

ELIZABETH BOUVIA, Petitioner, v. THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Respondent; HARRY GLENCHUR et al., Real Parties in Interest.

Court of Appeals of California, Second District, Division Two.

April 16, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Richard Stanley Scott, Malley, Scott, Koffman & Heston, Malley, Rosenfeld & Scott, Jacqueline M. Scheck, King, Brady & Bazar, Griffith D. Thomas, Fred Okrand, Paul Hoffman, Andrew Roth, Roth & Streifer and Steven Rease for Petitioner.

No appearance for Respondent.

De Witt W. Clinton, County Counsel, Daniel D. Mikesell, Jr., Senior Deputy County Counsel, and Steven J. Carnevale, Principal Deputy County Counsel, for Real Parties in Interest.

OPINION

BEACH, J.

Petitioner, Elizabeth Bouvia, a patient in a public hospital, seeks the removal from her body of a nasogastric tube inserted and maintained against her will and without her consent by physicians who so placed it for the purpose of keeping her alive through involuntary forced feeding.

Petitioner has here filed a petition for writ of mandamus and other extraordinary...

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