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Selected Recent Court Decisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1990

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References

1 1990 WL 31754 (1st. Cir.) (to be reported at 899 F.2d 53).

2 Id. at 54.

3 Id. at 44.

4 Id. at 50.

5 Id. at 1-2.

6 Id. at 2.

7 Id. at 25-26.

8 Id. at 50.

9 Id. at 31.

10 Id. at 34.

11 Id. at 38.

12 Id. at 51-52.

1 551 So. 2d 1186 (Fla. 1989).

2 Id. at 1192.

3 Id. at 1193.

4 Id. at 1194.

5 FLA. STAT. ANN. § 390.001(4) (a) (West Supp. 1988).

6 Id.

7 551 So. 2d at 1189.

8 Id.

9 Id.

10 Id. at 1194.

11 Id. at 1195.

12 Id.

13 Id.

1 551 N.Y.S. 2d 615 (1990).

2 Id. at 622-23.

3 Id. at 620.

4 Id. at 616.

5 Id. at 617.

6 Id.

7 Id. at 622.

8 Id. at 622-23.

9 Id. at 622.

1 886 F.2d 194 (8th Cir. 1989).

2 Id. at 200.

3 Id.

4 Id. at 196.

5 Id. at 195-96.

6 Id. at 198.

7 Id.

8 Id. at 199-200.

9 Id. at 200.

1 893 F.2d 706 (5th Cir. 1990).

2 Id.

3 Id. at 708.

4 Id.

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Id. at 709.

8 Id. at 711.

9 Id. at 712.

10 Id.

1 898 F.2d 322 (2d Cir. 1990).

2 Id. at 324.

3 Id. at 326.

4 Id. at 325, 327.

5 Id. at 324.

6 The term “mental health aquittees” refers to persons who are committed to institutional care after a verdict of “not reasonable by reason of mental disease or defect.” N.Y. CRIM. PROC. LAW § 330.20 (McKinney Supp. 1990).

7 898 F.2d at 324.

8 Id.

9 Id. at 325.

10 Id.

11 Id. at 326.

12 Id.

13 Id.

14 Id.

15 Id. at 327.

16 Id.

1 267 Cal. Rptr. 158 (1990) (to be reported at 218 Cal. App. 3d 517).

2 267 Cal. Rptr. at 170.

3 Id. at 169.

4 Id. at 158.

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id.

9 Id.

10 Id. at 166.

11 Id. at 164.

12 Id.

13 Id. at 160.

14 Id. at 169.

15 Id. 16 886 F.2d 871 (7th Cir. 1989), cert, granted, 110 S. Ct. 1522 (1990).

1 886 F.2d 874 (7th Cir. 1989), cert, granted, 110 S. Ct. 1522 (1990).

2 866 F.2dat901.

3 Id.

4 Id. at 876.

5 Id. at 877.

6 Id.

7 Id. at 876.

8 Id. at 874.

9 Id. at 883.

10 Id. at 886-87.

11 Id.. at 896. 12 Id.

13 Id. at 898.

14 Id. at 899.

15 Id. at 901.

16 110 S. Ct. 1522 (1990).

1 447 N.W.2d 442 (Minn. Ct. App. 1989).

2 Id. at 446.

3 Id.

4 Id. at 445.

5 Id. at 446.

6 Id. at 444.

7 Id.

8 Id. at 446.

9 Id. at 445.

10 Id.

11 Id. at 446.

12 Id.

1 781 P.2d 857 (1989) (to be reported at 99 Or. App. 60).

2 781 P.2d at 858.

3 Id.

4 Id.

5 Id.

6 Id.

7 Id.

8 Id.

9 Id

1 385 S.E.2d 651 (1989) (to be reported at 259 Ga. 579).

2 385 S.E.2d at 652.

3 Id.

4 Id. at 651.

5 Id.

6 Id. at 652.

7 Id.

8 Id.

1 406 Mass. 777, 551 N.E.2d 8 (1990).

2 Id. at 783, 551 N.E.2d at 12.

3 Id. at 783-85, 551 N.E.2d at 12-13.

4 Id. at 785, 551 N.E.2d at 13.

5 Id. at 778, 551 N.E.2d at 9. Ectodermal dysplasia is a severely disfiguring disorder that affects the skin, hair, nails, teeth, nerve cells, sweat glands, parts of the eyes and ears and other organs of the body. Id. at 778 n.2, 551 N.E.2d at 9 n.2.

6 Id. at 778, 551 N.E.2d at 9.

7 Id. at 783, 551 N.E.2d at 12.

8 Id.

9 Id. at 784, 551 N.E.2d at 12-13.

10 Id. at 785, 551 N.E.2d at 12-13.

11 Id.

12 Id.

1 406 Mass. 764, 551 N.E.2d 1 (1990).

2 Id. at 772, 551 N.E.2d at 5.

3 Id. at 769, 551 N.E.2d at 4.

4 Id. at 765-66, 551 N.E.2d at 2.

5 Id.. at 766, 551 N.E.2d at 2.

6 Id. at 768, 551 N.E.2d at 2.

7 Id. at 769, 551 N.E.2d at 4.

8 Id. at 769-72, 551 N.E.2d at 4-5.

9 Id. at 770, 551 N.E.2d at 4.

10 Id. at 770-71, 551 N.E.2d at 4-5.

11 Id. at 770, 551 N.E.2d at 4.

12 Id. at 772, 551 N.E.2d at 4.