Supreme Court of Illinois

Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities Code Section 2-107.1, setting forth the procedure for administration of involuntary treatment to recipients of mental health services, does not permit selective authorization of psychotropic medication.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/21/2002
• Published 01/06/2003

Judges

• Justice FITZGERALD delivered the opinion of the court:

Court

• Supreme Court of Illinois

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James E. Ryan, Attorney General, Springfield, and Meg Gorecki, State's Attorney, St. Charles (Joel D. Bertocchi, Solicitor General, Chicago, and Norbert J. Goetten, Martin P. Moltz and Diane L. Campbell, of the Office of the State's Attorneys Appellate Prosecutor, Elgin, of counsel), for the People., Saul J. Morse and Robert John Kane, Springfield, for amici curiae Illinois State Medical Society & Illinois Psychiatric Society.


• For Appellees:
  
• Jeff M. Plesko and William E. Coffin, of the Illinois Guardianship & Advocacy Commission, Chicago, for appellee.