Legal Opinion
Savastano v. Nurnberg
New York Court of Appeals
Decided December 27, 1990PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Titone, J.
At issue on this appeal is the constitutionality of the statutory and regulatory scheme which permits the Commissioner of the New York State Office of Mental Health to authorize the transfer of involuntarily committed mentally ill patients, over their objection, from municipal acute-care facilities to intermediate and long-term State mental health institutions, without holding a prior judicial hearing as to the appropriateness of the transfer (see, Mental Hygiene Law § 29.11; 14 NYCRR 517.4). For the reasons that follow, we conclude that the procedural scheme…
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