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MATTER OF LESSER (MARTIN)

144 Misc.2d 359 (1989)

In the Matter of Michael Lesser, as Clinical Director of Inpatient Services at Hillside Hospital, a Division of Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Petitioner, for an Order Authorizing Involuntary Treatment of Donna Martin, Respondent.

Supreme Court, Queens County.

May 9, 1989

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nixon, Hargrave, Devans & Doyle (Suanne Linder Chiacchiaro of counsel), for petitioner. Gerald W. Kaplan and Thomas Behrendt for respondent.

COSMO J. DI TUCCI, J.

This matter and a factually related matter involving one Betty Kaufman are both before this court based upon the petitioner's application to involuntarily medicate each of the respondents. For purposes of judicial economy, both of these petitions will be addressed in this decision.

These two cases present parallel sets of facts. In both cases, the respondents are involuntary patients...

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