Dean, M. v. Bowling Green-Brandywine

203 A.3d 973

• Court: Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• Decided: March 4, 2019
• Docket: 657 MAL 2018 (Granted)
• Status: Published

Opinion

PER CURIAM .

AND NOW, this 4 ^th day of March, 2019, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED. The issues, as stated by petitioner, are:

a. Whether the Superior Court, in reviewing a nonsuit, properly applied the provisions of the Mental Health Procedures Act ("MHPA") and the evidence in the light most favorable to the plaintiffs in granting limited immunity to a drug addiction treatment facility and its physicians where the individual who died while under the care of the facility was not mentally ill and did not seek voluntary inpatient treatment for a mental illness.

b. Whether the Superior Court properly applied fundamental notions of due process and the provisions of the Mental Health Procedures Act ("MHPA") to an individual who did not give consent to voluntary treatment under the MHPA.