Legal Opinion
Gotkin v. Miller
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided July 24, 1974No. 74-C-584PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
TRAVIA, District Judge.
On several occasions between 1962 and 1970, the plaintiff Janet Gotkin was a voluntary mental patient at Brooklyn State Hospital, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center and at Gracie Square Hospital. The precipitating cause for many of these voluntary hospitalizations was a series of threatened suicide attempts. It is alleged that since September of 1970, the plaintiff Janet Gotkin has not been hospitalized or treated for any mental disorder.
Janet Gotkin and her husband, Paul Gotkin, have co-authored a book, which is to be published by Quadrangle…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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3Cited by18 opinions
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