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Subject:  Psychiatric Experimentation on Individuals with Mental Illness Who Lack the Capacity to Consent

T.D. v. New York State Office of Mental Health (Supreme Court, New York County, 1995)

Disability Advocates, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, and Mental Hygiene Legal Service, First Judicial Department, represented the plaintiffs in this landmark case, which struck the New York State Office of Mental Health (“OMH”) human subject experimentation regulations, 14 N.Y.C.R.R. § 527.10.  Those regulations had unlawfully authorized risky, non-therapeutic experiments on incapable adult state psychiatric patients and on children. 

Significant decisions and orders:

T.D. v. New York State Office of Mental Health, 165 Misc.2d 62, 626 N.Y.S.2d 1015, (N.Y. Sup. New York County February 28, 1995)

T.D. v. New York State Office of Mental Health (N.Y. Sup. New York County January 18, 1996), unreported Order to Show Cause with Temporary Restraining Order and related stipulations.

T.D. v. New York State Office of Mental Health, 228 A.D.2d 95, 650 N.Y.S.2d 173 (N.Y. App. Div 1st Dept. December 05, 1996), appeal dismissed, 91 N.Y.2d 860, 690 N.E.2d 1259, 668 N.Y.S.2d 153 (N.Y. 1997).