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Who explains your rights when the hospital holds you?
The California Supreme Court examined who should explain a detained patient’s rights—and the conflict when that task belongs to the treating facility.
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What the record says
California case and incident register · Batch 1
- Date
- 26 Jan 1970
- People / institutions
- Cal. Supreme Court; Citizens Advisory Council amicus
- Mechanism
- Judicial construction
- Allegation
- —
- Finding or outcome
- JUDICIAL FINDING: refusal of voluntary treatment is "tantamount to a request for release"; court flags "role conflict" in having the treating facility explain rights
- Open questions
- Did counties adopt the suggested third-party rights advisement? Trace to §§ 5252.1, 5256 history
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Reference and provenance
1970-CA-THORN