Jennings v. New York State Office of Mental Health

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1997-06-12

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OPINION OF THE COURT Smith, J. New York State policy has long favored the establishment of *234 residential housing facilities to deinstitutionalize the treatment of mentally disabled persons. However, some residents of the Pine Hills community in the City of Albany (the City) believed that their neighborhood was already overcrowded with such facilitie…

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