Nursing home advocates challenge treatment law - Prof. Mort Cohen

Advocates for nursing home patients are challenging a California law that allows doctors to decide when a patient is mentally incompetent to refuse treatment. A lawyer for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, which filed the suit Tuesday in Alameda County Superior Court, said doctors have used the 1992 law to administer mind-altering drugs, put patients in physical restraints and, in one case, remove a feeding tube

Judge halts end-of-life decision-making for nursing home patients

An Alameda County judge has ordered state health officials to stop allowing doctors at nursing homes to administer psychiatric drugs or make end-of-life decisions for patients the doctors consider mentally incompetent. An interview with Professor Mort Cohe

Bernard Segal, longtime law school professor, dies

The obituary of Bernard Segal that appeared in SFGate.com at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2011%2F08%2F17%2FBA4V1KO5DR.DTL

Judge halts end-of-life decision-making for nursing home patients

An Alameda County judge has ordered state health officials to stop allowing doctors at nursing homes to administer psychiatric drugs or make end-of-life decisions for patients the doctors consider mentally incompetent. An interview with Professor Mort Cohe

Mental patients who refuse drugs must get hearing

In a ruling that could affect thousands of mental patients in California, a state appeals court has ordered Marin County to provide judicial hearings before administering drugs to patients who have been held in the county hospital longer than two weeks

Judges: Bench diversity needed “now more than ever”

Comments about the 2011 Ron George Lecture from PoliticsBlog, a blog on SFGate.com

Mental patients who refuse drugs must get hearing

In a ruling that could affect thousands of mental patients in California, a state appeals court has ordered Marin County to provide judicial hearings before administering drugs to patients who have been held in the county hospital longer than two weeks

Judges: Bench diversity needed “now more than ever”

Comments about the 2011 Ron George Lecture from PoliticsBlog, a blog on SFGate.com