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IN RE CASSANDRA C.

No. 19426.

112 A.3d 158 (2015)

316 Conn. 476

In re CASSANDRA C.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided January 8, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael S. Taylor , assigned counsel, with whom was James P. Sexton , assigned counsel, for the appellant (respondent mother).

Joshua Michtom , assigned counsel, for the appellant (minor child).

John E. Tucker , assistant attorney general, with whom were Rosemarie T. Webber , assistant attorney general, and, on the brief, George Jepsen , attorney general, and Benjamin Zivyon and Michael Besso , assistant attorneys general, for the appellee (petitioner).

Daniel J. Krisch , Hartford, Sandra Staub and David McGuire filed a brief for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Connecticut as amicus curiae.

ROGERS, C.J., and PALMER, ZARELLA, EVELEIGH, McDONALD, ESPINOSA and ROBINSON, Js.

This appeal raised the question of whether Connecticut should recognize as a matter of our common law the "mature minor" doctrine, which allows a sufficiently mature minor to consent to or to refuse medical treatment. The threshold issue that we must resolve, however, is whether the trial court properly determined that Cassandra C....

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