The New York State Bar Association’s (NYSBA) House of Delegates has adopted a report recommending the elimination of all mental health questions in the application for admission to the bar in New York state. The report was prepared by NYSBA’s ...

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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Two committees of New York state lawmakers are examining the level of mental health services provided in the state’s juvenile justice system. The Assembly’s Committee on Children and Families and the Committee on Mental Health are ...

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s liberals and conservatives seemed to disagree Monday on whether an Alabama inmate was entitled to a mental-health expert who would be on his side in fighting the state’s attempt to sentence him to death. The ...

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — After a judge ruled Monday that Dylann Roof is competent to represent himself, the same jury that last month unanimously found him guilty in the slayings of nine black parishioners at a South Carolina church will return ...

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FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court says the only way a mentally incompetent 88-year-old man can seek a divorce is if his guardian files for it on his behalf. The trouble is, Elmer Riehle’s legal guardian is his wife, ...

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ALBANY — New York’s schools will have to teach about mental health in their state-mandated health classes starting next summer. The law signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo takes effect in July 2018. The 40-year-old mandate for health education already specifically ...

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ALBANY — New York is expanding its efforts to make sure inmates who receive mental health treatment in prison aren’t cut off from such care when they are released. Discharge planning that included medication, enrollment in Medicaid and initial clinic ...

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FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — An Iraq War veteran being treated for mental illness was the gunman who opened fire at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding 16 others before committing suicide, in an attack on the same Texas ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department Mental Health Cross Examination People v. Thomas KA 09-00461 Appealed from Monroe County Court Background: The defendant broke into the apartment of the victim’s mother and beat the victim with his fists and a metal rod. ...

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Appellate Division, Fourth Department Visitation Mental Health Vieira v. Huff CAF 10-00275 Appealed from Family Court, Ontario County Background: The respondent mother appealed from the modification of an order for joint custody that gave sole legal and physical custody of ...

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U.S. District Court, Western District of New York Constitutional Torts Right of Privacy — Mental Health Stout v. Town of Tonawanda Police Department 09-CV-261 Judge Skretny Background: Plaintiff David Stout commenced this action in New York State Supreme Court on ...

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