The state’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of a law that gives judges authority to force mentally ill people to comply with treatment. …Under the law, a family member or caseworker could seek a court order requiring treatment. A court hearing must meet a set of criteria established under the law before what is known as an assisted outpatient treatment order can be issued. The appeals court found that the “statute’s procedure for obtaining an A.O.T. order provides all the process that is constitutionally due.”

—New York Times