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Due process requires that the nature and duration of commitment bear some reasonable relation to the purpose for which the individual is committed." Reasoning that if commitment is for treatment and betterment of individuals, it must be accompanied by adequate treatment, several lower courts recognized a due process right 14th 1979 Addington v ...
Rennie sued in federal district court to prevent the hospital from administering psychotropic medications to him without a clear emergency. His counsel was the Office of the Public Advocate . As Judge Brotman describes in his decision, the precipitating factors occurred earlier in the month when Rennie had become homicidal.
A man is charged with critically harming his child, who is on life support. If the child dies, the man may be charged with murder. Tony Bland: England Sheffield: 1993 Bland was the first patient in English legal history to be allowed to die by the courts through the withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment. Carol Carr: United States Georgia: 2002
A Court of Protection judge ruled that the father of two, in his 40s, made a valid ‘advance decision’ to refuse hospital treatment.
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The pre-1984 law did not have the same stringent 30- and 45-day time limits for examinations, but merely provided that "For the purpose of the examination the court may order the accused committed for such reasonable period as the court may determine to a suitable hospital or other facility to be designated by the court."
A Colorado mother is spending weekends in jail after she refused to comply with a court’s order for two of her sons to attend therapy sessions with their father, a former police officer who has ...
Hospitals could medicate and use other means of control or treatment without consultation with the patient or the patient's family. [4] This decision was one of the first that contributed to a growing body of case law recognizing that prisoners and competent mental patients have the right to refuse treatment. [5] Rogers v.