Legal Opinion
Gross v. Rell
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 27, 2009No. Docket 08-2626-cvPublishedCited by 90 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STRAUB, Circuit Judge:
For nearly a year beginning in 2005, Daniel Gross, an octogenarian, had a conservatorship imposed for his estate and person against his will. He was kept in a nursing home for ten months, until a Superior Court judge in Connecticut, citing “a terrible miscarriage of justice,” granted his petition for a writ of habeas corpus and ordered him released. This lawsuit stems from that unfortunate series of events.
It is alleged that a probate court judge signed a facially impossible order that did not comply with the law; the court-appointed attorney disregarded Gross’s wishes…
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