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Still Battling CT Probate Court

Daniel Gross, an old man infamously abused at the hands of probate court before he died in 2007,1409, might yet force farreaching reform in a system that once robbed him of his freedom.

Next week,4040, the state Supreme Court will take up a key question from Gross' federal civil rights lawsuit and consider whether the people appointed to look after him the lawyers and conservators who are supposed to represent the best interests of the elderly and infirm in probate court are immune from lawsuits.

Whether lawyers and conservators deserve what is known as "quasijudicial immunity" is a volatile question. Reformers say this case represents the ultimate recourse for folks abused by the probate courts. Probate judges and attorneys for Gross' lawyer and conservator say that denying immunity would bring the courts to "a screeching halt" because it would be impossible to find individuals willing to serve as conservators or lawyers in difficult cases for fear they could be sued,2299,http://www.aphs.ch/cgi-bin/cheaptimberlandbootsformen.html.