Matter of Kover

Supreme Court committed two egregious errors in this proceeding, one which most probably will never be corrected and the other which can and should be.

The first error, which is not the focus of this appeal but which informs all else that happened here, was the unlawful imposition of an article 81 guardianship on a 94-year-old Jewish survivor of Nazi Germany against her will, without her consent and without a hearing.

The second error was made when the court imposed punitive sanctions and costs upon the elderly woman’s lawyers for protesting the court’s action in their motion papers. And, while…