# Conservatorship of Valerie N.

> California Supreme Court · October 21, 1985 · 40 Cal. 3d 143

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9847368

## Case

- **Full name:** Conservatorship of the Person of VALERIE N. MILDRED G., as Conservator, Etc., Et Al., Petitioners and Appellants, v. VALERIE N., Objector and Respondent
- **Court:** California Supreme Court
- **Decided:** October 21, 1985
- **Citations:** 40 Cal. 3d 143; 219 Cal. Rptr. 387; 707 P.2d 760; 1985 Cal. LEXIS 401
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurring in part by Reynoso
- **Judges:** Grodin, Reynoso, Lucas, Bird
- **Cited by:** 31 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

REYNOSO, J.
I concur and dissent. I concur in the affirmance of the judgment. On this record Valerie should not be subjected to an operation. *170 I dissent, based on much of the Chief Justice’s analysis, from the majority’s conclusion that the present statutory scheme denies the developmentally disabled the right of privacy. The Legislature, after study of the sad historical reality pertaining to sterilization of developmentally disabled, has decreed that those official actions cease. That was a prudent and constitutionally permitted legislative action.

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