Cabinet for Human Resources v. Holbrook

DUNN, Judge.

This appeal is from the Boyd Circuit Court judgment which overturned an administrative decision by appellant, the Cabinet for Human Resources, formerly Department for Human Resources, and permanently restrains DHR from removing a retarded man from a state institution to placement in a private home until a hearing can be held in the presence of a guardian ad litem appointed to represent the man’s interests.

Lawrence Dale Holbrook, now age 30, was born July 31, 1953, with the congenital birth defects suffered by a mongoloid child. On July 7, 1959, the Boyd Circuit Court adjudicated…