Before the court is intervenor's application for a declaration that article 78 of the Mental Hygiene Law is unconstitutional because of its failure to provide for the appointment of counsel for indigent subjects of committeeship proceedings. The Attorney-General has opposed the application primarily on procedural grounds.
The court finds that intervenor has standing to seek the requested...
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