Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1967

Shikara v. Commissioner of Mental Health

Shikara v. Commissioner of Mental Health
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided June 2, 1967
352 Mass. 779; 227 N.E.2d 477; 1967 Mass. LEXIS 1020

Shikara v. Commissioner of Mental Health

Opinion of the Court

The petitioner seeks by this petition for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, Commissioner of Mental Health, to permit her to inspect, and to furnish her with copies of, the records of the Boston State Hospital and the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, where, it is alleged, she has been a patient. From a denial of the petition, the petitioner appealed. For the reasons set forth in Bane v. Superintendent of Boston State Hosp. 350 Mass. 637, there was no error.

Order denying petition affirmed.

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