Eberhardy v. Circuit Court for Wood County

This is a review of a court of appeals decision1 affirming an order of the circuit court for Wood county which dismissed the guardians’ petition seeking the court’s approval for their consent to the surgical sterilization of a severely retarded adult daughter.

The question in this case is whether the circuit court has jurisdiction to authorize the duly appointed guardians of an adult mentally retarded female ward to give their consent to surgical procedures which will result in *542the permanent sterilization of the ward when such sterilization is for contraceptive and therapeutic purposes, and…