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RIVERS v. KATZ

67 N.Y.2d 485 (1986)

Mark Rivers et al., Appellants, v. Stephen Katz, as Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health, et al., Respondents. In the Matter of Florence Grassi, Appellant, v. Wendy Acrish, as Executive Director of the Harlem Valley Psychiatric Center, et al., Respondents.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided June 10, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William M. Brooks, Francis M. Savastano and Robert A. Feenick for appellants in the first above-entitled action and appellant in the second above-entitled proceeding.

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Thomas P. Dorsey, Robert Hermann and Robert L. Schonfeld of counsel), for respondents in the first above-entitled action and in the second above-entitled proceeding.

Bruce J. Ennis, Jr., Donald N. Bersoff and David W. Ogden for American Psychological Association, amicus curiae.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges MEYER, SIMONS, KAYE, TITONE and HANCOCK, JR., concur.

ALEXANDER, J.

We are presented on this appeal with the issue of whether and under what circumstances the State may forcibly administer antipsychotic drugs1 to a mentally ill patient who has been involuntarily confined to a State facility.

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When this litigation commenced, appellants Mark Rivers, Florence Zatz and Florence...

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