Guardianship of Roe

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts · Decided 1981-04-23

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*417 Hennessey, C.J. The ultimate question we address in this case is whether the guardian of a mentally ill person possesses the inherent authority to consent to the forcible administration of antipsychotic medication to his noninstitutionalized ward in the ab…

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