Involuntary Commitment and Medication

By: Derek Hawkins//June 10, 2021//

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WI Supreme Court

Case Name: Fond Du Lac County v. S.N.W.,

Case No.: 2021 WI 41

Focus: Involuntary Commitment and Medication

S.N.W. petitioned for review of the decision of the court of appeals, Fond du Lac Cnty. v. S.N.W., No. 2019AP2073, unpublished slip op. (Wis. Ct. App. June 17, 2020), affirming the circuit court’s orders for involuntary commitment and involuntary medication and treatment. After reviewing the record and the briefs of both parties, and after hearing oral arguments, we conclude that this matter should be dismissed as improvidently granted.

Dismissed as improvidently granted

Concur:

Dissent: ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J., dissent.

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Derek A Hawkins is Associate Corporate Counsel, IP at Amazon.

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