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BAUMSTEIN v. SUNRISE COMMUNITY, INC.

No. 98-1186.

738 So.2d 420 (1999)

Sandra BAUMSTEIN, individually and as Personal Representative of the Estate of Karen Baumstein, Appellant, v. SUNRISE COMMUNITY, INC., a Florida corporation, and Dr. Lucrezia Aquino, Appellees.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Third District.

July 7, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Colodny, Fass & Talenfeld and Stuart B. Yanofsky and Howard M. Talenfeld, Fort Lauderdale, for appellant.

Cole, White & Billbrough and Geoffrey B. Marks and G. Bart Billbrough, Miami, for Sunrise Community.

Bruce I. Yegelwel, Miami; Hicks & Anderson and Jean Kneale, Miami, and Ila J. Klion, for Dr. Aquino.

Ellen Saideman, Fort Lauderdale; Leonard Helfand, Tallahassee, as amicus curiae for Advocacy Center for Persons with Disabilities, Inc.

Before SCHWARTZ, C.J., and NESBITT and JORGENSON, JJ.

SCHWARTZ, Chief Judge.

Sandra Baumstein, the personal representative of her late sister Karen, a developementally disabled adult who had been a resident of a private facility owned by the appellee Sunrise Community Incorporated, brought an action against Sunrise and Karen's physician, Dr. Lucrezia Aquino, claiming damages for the defendants' alleged violation of rights guaranteed to such patients by section 393.13, Florida Statutes (1993), the "Bill of Rights of Persons...

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