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Civil practice – Commitment
Where a respondent moved to dismiss a commitment petition on jurisdictional grounds, there was no error in the lower court’s decision to deem the motion to dismiss waived.
Civil practice – Commitment
Where a respondent was involuntarily committed to the Hospital for Behavioral Medicine, the commitment order must be vacated because a conditional voluntary patient is not the proper subject of a petition for involuntary commitment.
Civil practice – Commitment
Where a respondent was involuntarily committed, the commitment order must be vacated because the evidence was insufficient to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the respondent poses a substantial risk of harm to others.
Civil practice – Commitment
Where a respondent has filed an appeal challenging his involuntary commitment to the Hospital for Behavioral Medicine, the commitment order should be affirmed because the record shows sufficient evidence to support a finding that the respondent posed a substantial risk of physical harm to other persons.
Civil practice – Commitment – ‘Good cause’
Where a District Court judge denied a respondent’s request for a hearing following voluntary commitment pursuant to G.L.c. 123, §16(c), the judge erred under the “not frivolous or unreasonable” standard for “good cause.”
Verdicts & Settlements
- Injury during baby’s adenoidectomy leads to stroke
- Construction worker’s hand caught in cement mixer
- Worker trapped in freezer, dies during steam cleaning
- Pedestrian, 69, hit by motor vehicle while in crosswalk
- Four-vehicle pileup leaves driver with spinal cord injury
- Nursing home staff blamed for kidney-failure death
- Pharmacy’s late delivery blamed for patient’s death
- Man, 25, drowns after swimming lesson at fitness club
Opinion Digests
- Jurisdiction – Forum selection clause – Non-signatory
- Criminal – Responsibility
- Attorneys – Lien
- Landlord and tenant – Default judgment
- Zoning – Constructive grant – Comprehensive permit
- Fraud – False Claims Act – Settlement share
- Civil practice – Discovery – Cybersecurity
