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MATTER OF JOSEPHS

144 Misc.2d 187 (1989)

In the Matter of Bertram Josephs, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Bronx County.

July 6, 1989

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Abrams, Attorney-General (Morton H. Meyer of counsel), for Bronx Psychiatric Center, petitioner. Michael Genkin and Ronald Gottlieb for respondent.

LEWIS R. FRIEDMAN, J.

When it revised the Mental Hygiene Law the Legislature carefully created a class of "voluntary" patients in the psychiatric hospitals of this State. This case presents yet another instance where Bronx Psychiatric Center (the Hospital) has proven irresponsible in its treatment of "voluntary" patients whom the Hospital seeks to convert to involuntary status.

In this case the patient...

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