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IN THE MATTER OF McKNIGHT

406 Mass. 787 (1990)

550 N.E.2d 856

IN THE MATTER OF CHRISTOPHER DAVID McKNIGHT (and a companion case).

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Bristol.

March 6, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith Fabricant, Assistant Attorney General, for Department of Mental Retardation.

Robert A. Sherman (Paul Michienzie with him) for Arthur Duncan McKnight.

Roderick MacLeish, Jr. (Susan B. Tuchman with him) for Behavior Research Institute, Inc.

Bettina A. Briggs for the guardian ad litem.

David Norris, for Christopher David McKnight, submitted a brief.

William Crane & Allan Macurdy, for Massachusetts Federation for Children with Special Needs, Inc., & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Steven J. Schwartz & Cathy Costanzo, for National Association for Rights Protection and Advocacy & another, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Stan Goldman & Kate Tobin, for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee, amicus curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: LIACOS, C.J., WILKINS, NOLAN, LYNCH, & GREANEY, JJ.

WILKINS, J.

Christopher David McKnight, known as David, was born on November 8, 1966, and suffers from severe autism and severe to profound mental retardation. Since 1982, he has been enrolled for education and treatment at Behavior Research Institute, Inc. (BRI), a private, residential facility specializing in the treatment of behavior disorders. Until December, 1988, a school district in Wyoming, where David and his father once lived, funded David's care at BRI...

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