Edward Nitkewicz

"Formal silverware" and the State of New York's duty to its psychiatric patients

Edward Nitkewicz | September 13, 2011 10:32 AM
Category: Miscellaneous

In what a Court of Claims Judge ruled a specious defense claim, the State of New York argued that its duty to account for knives in its psychiatric hospitals should extend to silverware and not...

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