NEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL v. MAGRINI


451 Mass. 777 (2008)

NEWTON-WELLESLEY HOSPITAL v. ROBERT MAGRINI.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

July 10, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Fleischner (J. Paterson Rae with him) for the defendant.

Michael T. Porter for the plaintiff.

Beth L. Eisenberg & Stan Goldman, Committee for Public Counsel Services, & Jennifer Honig, William Landers, Frank Laski, & Karen Owen Talley, for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: MARSHALL, C.J., GREANEY, IRELAND, SPINA, COWIN, CORDY, & BOTSFORD, JJ.


IRELAND, J.

This appeal involves the scope of the statutory right to an emergency hearing afforded under G. L. c. 123, § 12 (b), in connection with the temporary involuntary commitment of a person with mental illness. Robert Magrini, who has a schizoaffective disorder, was involuntarily restrained and temporarily committed, pursuant to G. L. c. 123, § 12 (a) and (b), to a psychiatric unit of...

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