California Court of Appeal

Order granting petitioner regional center's request to move the conservatee from the Sonoma Developmental Center to a smaller community facility is reversed where the order improperly denied the conservator administrative review.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/10/2007
• Published 10/10/2007

Judges

• RUVOLO, P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Severson & Werson, Jan T. Chilton, Donald J. Querio, San Francisco, and Jeremy K. Ostrander, for Appellant., Farella Braun & Martel, Mark D. Petersen and Patrick McKinney, San Francisco, for California Association of State Hospital/Parent Councils for the Retarded, Amicus Curiae for Appellant., Eric R. Gelber, Sacramento, and Ellen S. Goldblatt, Oakland, for Protection & Advocacy, Inc., as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Conservatee Roy Whitley., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Thomas Yanger, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Douglas M. Press, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Susan M. Carson, Deputy Attorney General, for California Department of Developmental Services as Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Reed Smith, Joseph P. Mascovich, Bette B. Epstein and David J. de Jesus, Oakland;  Nancy Wilborg Ryan, Santa Rosa, for Respondent., Enright & Ocheltree, Julie A. Ocheltree, Judith A. Enright, Beverly Hills, and Andrew J. Black for Association of Regional Center Agencies, Inc., Amicus Curiae for Respondent and on behalf of Conservatee Roy Whitley.