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Michelle Cedillo v. Secretary of Health and Human Services, also known as Cedillo, was a court case involving the family of Michelle Cedillo, an autistic girl whose parents sued the United States government because they believed that her autism was caused by her receipt of both the measles-mumps-and-rubella vaccine (also known as the MMR vaccine) and thimerosal-containing vaccines.
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 ...
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.
A single mother is fighting back in court against a former neighbor who filed a lawsuit over her 11-year-old son with autism, calling him a “nuisance.” ... Lu argues that the child’s ...
A Court of Protection judge ruled that the father of two, in his 40s, made a valid ‘advance decision’ to refuse hospital treatment.
The fourth day of testimonies before the jury in the civil trial between the Kowalski family and All Children's Hospital will resume Thursday. Jury hears from family physician, psychologist during ...
Rennie v. Klein; Court: United States District Court for the District of New Jersey: Full case name: John E. Rennie v. Ann Klein, Commissioner of Human Services, Michail Rotov, Director, Division of Mental Health and Hospitals, Richard Wilson, Chief Executive Officer of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, Max Pepernik, Acting Medical Director of Ancora Psychiatric Hospital, Edward Wallace, Assistant ...
Justice Scalia's opinion raised important questions about the legal differences between refusal of treatment, suicide, assisted suicide, physician-assisted suicide, and "letting die", and the state's responsibility in preventing these, which would prove crucial issues in right to die and right to life cases to come.