Drummer v. State

Citations

• 233 Conn. App. 383

Syllabus

The plaintiff, who had been involuntarily civilly committed to a psychiatric hospital pursuant to statute (§ 17a-498), appealed from the trial court's judgment for the defendants in her action seeking declaratory and injunctive relief in connection with her continued confinement. She claimed, inter alia, that the court improperly granted the defendants' motion for summary judgment. Held: This court, having concluded that the plaintiff did not have a specific personal and legal interest that had been specially and injuriously affected in order to have standing to assert her claims for declaratory and injunctive relief, reversed the trial court's judgment and remanded the case with direction to dismiss the action. This court, having concluded that the plaintiff lacked individual standing to raise her claims in the underlying action, determined that she also lacked the requisite typicality to raise those same claims on behalf of a class as required by the rule of practice (§ 9-7) for class certification. Argued March 10—officially released July 1, 2025