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NEW! Alaska statutes | analysis of Alaska law
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STATE SUPREME COURT RULING (June 30,2006). Alaska’s state supreme court in Myers corrected an oversight in state law, clarifying that a person’s "best interests" be taken into account when the state exercises its duty to protect an individual from themselves. (Most other state laws and the Treatment Advocacy Center’s Model Law for Assisted Treatment include similar determinations.) Myers is one of many cases decided each year in the state courts that has no real impact nationally, but can hopefully make a difference for some people in Alaska.
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