Patricia McGinnis, JD/CANHR ED signs on to amicus brief in the Britney Spears conservatorship case

Patricia McGinnis, JD, PACE-Gerontology Program lecturer, is the Executive Director of the California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform.  CANHR is a statewide nonprofit 501(c)(3) advocacy organization for California’s long-term care consumers.  CANHR has joined with 26 other civil rights and disability rights organizations to submit an amicus brief by the ACLU Disability Rights Program in the Britney Spears conservatorship case, arguing in support of Ms. Spears' Sixth Amendment right to have a lawyer of her own choosing.