MATTER OF K.L.


302 A.D.2d 388 (2003)

755 N.Y.S.2d 93

In the Matter of K.L., Appellant. GLENN MARTIN, Respondent; ATTORNEY GENERAL OF STATE OF NEW YORK, Intervenor-Respondent.

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

Decided February 3, 2003.


Ordered that the order and judgment is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

In 1999 the New York State Legislature enacted Mental Hygiene Law § 9.60, commonly known as "Kendra's Law," in response to an incident where a woman named Kendra Webdale was pushed to her death in front of a moving subway train by a schizophrenic person with a long psychiatric history who failed to take his medication (see Matter of...

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