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GOTKIN v. MILLER

No. 74-C-584.

379 F.Supp. 859 (1974)

Janet GOTKIN and Paul Gotkin, Individually and on behalf of all persons similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. Alan D. MILLER, Individually and as Commissioner of Mental Hygiene of the State of New York, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

July 24, 1974.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bruce J. Ennis, New York Civil Liberties Union and Mental Health Law Project, Christopher A. Hansen, Mental Health Law Project, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen. of the State of New York, New York City, for defendants, Alan D. Miller, Commissioner of Mental Hygiene of the State of New York, and Morton B. Wallach, Director of Brooklyn State Hospital; Samuel A. Hirshowitz, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Maria L. Marcus, Asst. Atty. Gen., of counsel.

Lippe, Ruskin & Schlissel, P. C., Mineola, N. Y., for defendant, Charles J. Rabiner, Director of Hillside Medical Center; Melvyn B. Ruskin, Michael L. Faltischek, Mineola, N. Y., of counsel.

Goldwater & Flynn, New York City, for defendant, Marvin Lipkowitz, Director of Gracie Square Hospital; George Kossoy, Robert Conrad, New York City, of counsel.

DECISION AND ORDER

TRAVIA, District Judge.

On several occasions between 1962 and 1970, the plaintiff Janet Gotkin was a voluntary mental patient at Brooklyn State Hospital, Long Island Jewish-Hillside Medical Center and at Gracie Square Hospital. The precipitating cause for many of these voluntary hospitalizations was a series of threatened suicide attempts. It is alleged that since September of 1970, the plaintiff Janet Gotkin has not been hospitalized...

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