Order unanimously reversed on the law without costs.
Memorandum:
The application of the Director of the Newark Developmental Center seeking permission to have respondent sterilized should have been denied.
The evidence at the hearing did not meet the regulatory standard that sterilization may be performed only when medically required to save a client from danger of death or serious physical illness (see, 14 NYCRR 633.11 [a] [3]). There was evidence...
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