MATTER OF TONJA P.

Supreme Court No. S-18077.

524 P.3d 795 (2023)

In the MATTER OF the Necessity for the Hospitalization of TONJA P.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

February 17, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Bedell , Assistant Public Defender, and Samantha Cherot , Public Defender, Anchorage, for Tonja P.

Laura Fox , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Anchorage, and Treg R. Taylor , Attorney General, Juneau, for State of Alaska.

Before: Winfree, Chief Justice, Maassen, Carney, and Borghesan, Justices. [Henderson, Justice, not participating.]


OPINION

I. INTRODUCTION

A woman appeals court orders authorizing her involuntary commitment and administration of psychotropic medication. She argues the superior court erred by relying on a cursory report from the court visitor and by failing to make specific findings that involuntary medication was in her best...

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