Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law and the facts, without costs or disbursements, the petition is denied, and the proceeding is dismissed.
The petitioner, Mid-Hudson Forensic Psychiatric Center, commenced this proceeding to obtain permission to administer electroconvulsive therapy to a patient over her objection pursuant to the State's parens patriae power (see, Rivers v Katz,
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