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Berkeley’s vote to ban electroshock—and the legal challenge
Coalition to Stop Electroshock (Ted Chabasinski, d. 6 Nov 2025) qualified Measure T; passed by a wide margin; the APA spent $15,000 against it; Chabasinski's argument was that California's ECT consent law was so laxly enforced a ban was needed
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What the record says
Worldwide register by region (Batch 2) · Batch 10
- Jurisdiction / date
- Berkeley, Nov 1982
- Channel
- 3
- Mechanism
- Municipal ballot ban on ECT
- What is documented
- Coalition to Stop Electroshock (Ted Chabasinski, d. 6 Nov 2025) qualified Measure T; passed by a wide margin; the APA spent $15,000 against it; Chabasinski's argument was that California's ECT consent law was so laxly enforced a ban was needed
- Finding or status
- Press and biography (Wikipedia with NYT/Newsweek citations)
- Limits
- The ban was later struck down in court (Northern California Psychiatric Society v. City of Berkeley) — opinion to open
- Label
- VERIFIED; LEAD on the overturning
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Reference and provenance
1982-CA-BERKELEY-MEASURE-T