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GUARDIANSHIP OF ERMA

SJC-10787.

459 Mass. 801 (2011)

GUARDIANSHIP OF ERMA.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Middlesex.

May 25, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice Whitehill Wiseberg for the ward.

William W. Porter, Assistant Attorney General (Kiernan E. Joliat, Assistant Attorney General, with him) for Department of Mental Health.

The following submitted briefs for amici curiae:

Kristen M. Lambert & Ellen M. DiPaola for Massachusetts Guardianship Association.

Marcia Boumil, Cristina Freitas, & Debbie Freitas for Comprehensive Family Evaluation Center, Tufts Medical Center.

Jennifer Honig, Miriam H. Ruttenberg, William Landers, Frank J. Laski, & Robert D. Fleischner for Mental Health Legal Advisors Committee & another.

Present: IRELAND, C.J., SPINA, CORDY, BOTSFORD, GANTS, & DUFFLY, JJ.

BOTSFORD, J.

The subject of the present appeal is an order issued by a judge in the Probate and Family Court (Probate Court), authorizing the involuntary administration of antipsychotic medication (substituted judgment treatment order1) to a mentally ill woman under guardianship, whom we shall call Erma. The order was issued in February, 2009, and has expired; for that and additional reasons...

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