RABENBERG v. RIGNEY

No. 20500.

597 N.W.2d 424 (1999)

1999 SD 71

Joni RABENBERG, Acting Administrator, of the South Dakota Human Services Center, a/k/a George Mickelson Center for the Neurosciences, Petitioner and Appellee, v. Bernard RIGNEY, Appellant.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided June 16, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael D. Stevens of Blackburn, Stevens & Fox, Yankton, for petitioner and appellee.

David M. Hosmer and Tamara D. Lee, Yankton, for appellant.


MILLER, Chief Justice.

[¶ 1.] A patient appeals the trial court's order granting the George S. Mickelson Center for Neurosciences (Center)1 authority to administer psychotropic medication to him. We affirm.

FACTS

[¶ 2.] Bernard Rigney, who has been diagnosed as chronic paranoid schizophrenic, was involuntarily committed by court order to the Center on February 8, 1996. He remained involuntarily committed until...

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