MENTAL HYGIENE LEGAL SERVICE v. BENNETT


297 A.D.2d 308 (2002)

746 N.Y.S.2d 308

MENTAL HYGIENE LEGAL SERVICE, on Behalf of CHRISTINE D., Appellant, v. RICHARD BENNETT et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided August 12, 2002.


Ordered that the judgment is modified, by adding thereto a provision declaring that the involuntary medication of Christine D. pursuant to an order of the Supreme Court, Dutchess County, dated April 17, 1997, did not violate her statutory, common-law, and constitutional rights; as so modified, the judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In January 1997 Christine D. (hereinafter the plaintiff) was admitted to Hudson River Psychiatric Center (hereinafter...

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