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IN RE SCHUOLER

No. 51133-1.

106 Wn.2d 500 (1986)

723 P.2d 1103

In the Matter of LORETTA SCHUOLER. NEAL McCARTHY, ET AL, Respondents, v. LORETTA SCHUOLER, Appellant.

The Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

August 7, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bothwell & Lorello and Thomas Bothwell, for appellant.

Jeffrey C. Sullivan, Prosecuting Attorney, and John C. Monter, Deputy, for respondents.

John H. Hertog, Jr., and George Yeannakis on behalf of Seattle-King County Public Defender Association, Michael Mirra on behalf of Evergreen Legal Services, and Neil R. Sarles on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union, amici curiae for appellant.

Robert M. Schaefer, Kurt W. Melchior, Jan T. Chilton, and A. Megan Evans on behalf of the International Psychiatric Association for the Advancement of Electrotherapy and Kenneth O. Eikenberry, Attorney General, and Karen McCarty Lundahl, Assistant, amici curiae for respondents.

UTTER, J.

Appellant Loretta Schuoler challenges the trial court's authorization of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) pursuant to the involuntary commitment statute. We agree that the ECT hearing below violated both statutory and due process requirements.

A friend brought Schuoler to the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital on August 11, 1983. At that time Schuoler was disoriented and refused to take the medication that...

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