GUARDIANSHIP OF L.H.

No. 11-P-1510.

84 Mass. App. Ct. 711 (2014)

GUARDIANSHIP OF L.H.

Appeals Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

January 24, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laura A. Sanford for the ward.

Miriam H. Ruttenberg , Phillip Kassel , Richard M. Glassman , Hillary J. Dunn , Thomas P. Murphy , & Robert D. Fleischner , for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee & others, amici curiae, submitted a brief.

Present: BERRY, BROWN, & AGNES, JJ.


BERRY, J.

This case involves two substituted judgment proceedings on petitions filed, following the precedent of Rogers v. Commissioner of the Dept. of Mental Health, 390 Mass. 489 (1983), and cases decided in its wake, in respect to the administration of antipsychotic medications to L.H. L.H. appeals from a decree and findings of the Probate and Family Court that she was not competent to make medical decisions and...

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