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MATTER OF SHIRLEY C.

136 Misc.2d 843 (1987)

In the Matter of Shirley C., a Patient at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center.

Supreme Court, Special Term, Suffolk County.

August 31, 1987

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (John Stolfi of counsel), for petitioner. Paul Gianelli for Sonia Schwartz, intervenor. Francis Savastan and Lesley Margaret DeLia, guardians ad litem.

DENIS R. HURLEY, J.

INTRODUCTION

By order to show cause returnable on July 24, 1987, the petitioner, in his capacity as acting executive director of Pilgrim Psychiatric Center (hereinafter Hospital), seeks an order authorizing a "modified radical mastectomy of the left breast" to be performed on Shirley C., a patient at the facility. That request is opposed by the patient's daughter, Sonia Schwartz...

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