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The law may privilege a person to detain somebody else against their will. A legally authorised detention does not constitute false imprisonment. For example, if a parent or legal guardian of a child denies the child's request to leave their house, and prevents them from doing so, this would not ordinarily constitute false imprisonment.
O'Connor v. Donaldson, 422 U.S. 563 (1975), was a landmark decision of the US Supreme Court in mental health law ruling that a state cannot constitutionally confine a non-dangerous individual who is capable of surviving safely in freedom by themselves or with the help of willing and responsible family members or friends.
A psychiatrist at an Arkansas hospital has been accused of holding 26 people against their will and taking part in a medical insurance scam. Dr Brian Hyatt is being investigated by federal and ...
Kidnapping is the holding of a person against their will with the intent to use the kidnapping in connection with some other crime. [21] Parental kidnapping is the kidnapping of a child when a parent has no legal right to the child.
Duress is a threat of harm made to compel someone to do something against their will or judgment; especially a wrongful threat made by one person to compel a manifestation of seeming assent by another person to a transaction without real volition. - Black's Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004) Duress in contract law falls into two broad categories: [6]
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After a period of time, Mitchell drove the woman to her boyfriend's home and dropped her off, according to court records. Court records also said Mitchell picked up a second woman on Sept. 3, 2017 ...
Restraining someone against their will is generally a crime in most jurisdictions, unless it is explicitly sanctioned by law. (See false arrest, false imprisonment). Restraint has been misused in special education settings resulting in severe injury and trauma of students and lack of education from spending school hours restrained. [2]