Avila v. New York Health and Hospitals Corporation, 22 July 1987.
The Supreme Court of New York held that an institution receiving federal funds and performing sterilizations may not arbitrarily prevent a mentally competent person and freely consenting individual from being sterilized. The plaintiff was a thirty-seven year old woman who, although mildly retarded, was not mentally incompetent under federal law.
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