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317 judgments found.
Country:
United States Year: 1986
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 477 U.S. 399 (1986)
Health Topics:
Mental health,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person,
Right to life Facts: The Appellant, Ford, was convicted of murder in a Florida state court and sentenced to death in 1974. There was no suggestion that he was incompetent at the time of the offense, at trial, or at sentencing. However in 1982, Ford began to manifest gradual changes in behavior, which, based on a psychiatric examination, indicated …Read more
Tags: Cruel and unusual punishment,
Detention,
Execution,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Incompetence,
Inmate,
Insanity,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental retardation,
Torture
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Canada Year: 1986
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: [1986] 2 S.C.R. 388
Health Topics:
Informed consent,
Mental health,
Sexual and reproductive health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to bodily integrity Facts: Eve was a mentally disabled young woman suffering from a condition that made it extremely difficult for her to communicate with others. She was not capable of understanding the consequential relationship between intercourse, pregnancy and birth. Mrs. E, her mother, was concerned that Eve might innocently become pregnant, which would mean that she, an elderly …Read more
Tags: Compulsory sterilization,
Compulsory treatment,
Contraception,
Contraceptives,
Family planning,
Forced sterilization,
Forced treatment,
Incapacity,
Incompetence,
Informed choice,
Involuntary sterilization,
Mandatory sterilization,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Mental retardation,
Non-consensual testing and treatment,
Patient choice,
Pregnancy,
Sterilization
Country:
United States Year: 1985
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 469 U.S. 287 (1985)
Health Topics:
Disabilities,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Mental health,
Poverty Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to social security Facts: In response to increasing projected state Medicaid costs, the directors of the Tennessee Medicaid program decided to implement a number of cost saving measures. Among these measures was a proposed reduction in the number of annual days of inpatient hospital care covered by the program from 20 to 14 days per fiscal year. Respondents, Tennessee …Read more
Tags: Access to treatment,
Budget,
Disabled,
Handicapped,
Health expenditures,
Health funding,
Health spending,
Indigent,
Low income,
Physically challenged,
Poor,
Secondary care,
Subsidies,
Tertiary care
Country:
United States Year: 1985
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 473 U.S. 432 (1985)
Health Topics:
Disabilities,
Hospitals,
Mental health Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: The Respondents, Cleburne Living Center (CLC) and others, brought suit against the City of Cleburne (the City) and a number of its officials, alleging that a zoning ordinance, and its application, violated the equal protection rights of CLC and its potential residents. CLC intended to lease a building for the operation of a group home …Read more
Tags: Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Mental retardation,
Private hospitals
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Netherlands Year: 1985
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: App. No. 8978/80, 8 Eur. H.R. Rep. 235 (1986).
Health Topics:
Child and adolescent health,
Disabilities,
Mental health,
Sexual and reproductive health,
Violence Human Rights: Freedom from discrimination,
Right to family life,
Right to privacy Facts: The applicant, a father of a mentally handicapped woman, found himself unable to institute criminal proceedings against an individual who had sexually assaulted his daughter due to a gap in the domestic criminal laws of the Netherlands, which required the victim to file the complaint herself. Although the victim was more than sixteen years of …Read more
Tags: Children,
Disabled,
Handicapped,
Incapacity,
Incompetence,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental retardation,
Minor,
Molestation,
Pediatric health,
Sexual abuse,
Sexual assault,
Sexual harassment,
Sexual violence,
Violence against women
Country:
Italy Year: 1984
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: App. No. 9019/80, 6 Eur. H.R. Rep. 440 (1984).
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Mental health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: Applicant, Luberti, an Italian national, shot and killed his mistress and was sentenced to twenty years imprisonment. The applicant pleaded insanity and several experts concluded that the applicant was suffering from mental illness. These findings were accepted by the Court of Appeal and he was acquitted on grounds of mental incapacity and the applicant was …Read more
Tags: Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory confinement,
Incapacity,
Insanity,
Involuntary commitment,
Involuntary confinement,
Mandatory commitment,
Mandatory confinement,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Paranoia,
Psychiatry,
Psychosis
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United States Year: 1982
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 457 U.S. 307 (1982)
Health Topics:
Disabilities,
Health care and health services,
Mental health,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to bodily integrity,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: Respondent, Romeo, a severely mentally retarded adult male, was involuntarily committed to the Pennhurst State School and Hospital (Pennhurst), pursuant to the applicable involuntary commitment provision of the Pennsylvania Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act. While at Pennhurst, Respondent was injured on several occasions through his own violence and the reaction of other residents. He …Read more
Tags: Access to treatment,
Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory confinement,
Cruel and unusual punishment,
Involuntary commitment,
Involuntary confinement,
Mandatory commitment,
Mandatory confinement,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Torture
Country:
United States Year: 1982
Court: Court of Appeal, First District, Division 1, California
Citation: Payton v. Weaver 182 Cal. Rptr. 225 (Cal. Ct. App. 1982)
Health Topics:
Chronic and noncommunicable diseases,
Controlled substances,
Health care and health services,
Medical malpractice,
Mental health,
Poverty Human Rights: Right to health Facts: Appellant, Brenda Payton, suffered from end stage renal disease and required weekly dialysis. She also suffered from drug addition, mental illness, and poverty. She brought action against respondents, physician John C Weaver, Jr. and Alba Bates and Herrick hospitals, in form of petition for writ of mandate alleging that they wrongly failed to provide her …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Addiction,
Damages,
Drug abuse,
Duty of care,
Indigent,
Kidney disease,
Low income,
Mental illness,
Substance abuse
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United Kingdom Year: 1981
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: App. No. 7215/75, 4 Eur. H.R. Rep. 188 (1982).
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Mental health,
Prisons Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: The applicant, a United Kingdom national who had previously been diagnosed with having a paranoid psychosis, claimed that the United Kingdom unlawfully deprived him of his liberty when authorities forcibly recalled him to a hospital for the criminally insane in which he had completed a prior sentence for a violent crime. At the time of …Read more
Tags: Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory confinement,
Cruel treatment,
Custody,
Degrading treatment,
Detainee,
Detention,
Imprisonment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Involuntary commitment,
Involuntary confinement,
Jail,
Mandatory confinement,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Paranoia,
Psychiatry,
Psychology,
Schizophrenia,
Torture
Country:
United States Year: 1980
Court: 10th Circuit Court of Appeal
Citation: 639 F.2d 559 (1980)
Health Topics:
Diet and nutrition,
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Hospitals,
Medical malpractice,
Mental health,
Prisons,
Violence,
Water, sanitation and hygiene Human Rights: Freedom from torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment,
Freedom of association,
Freedom of expression,
Right of access to information,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to family life,
Right to food,
Right to health,
Right to privacy Facts: This case was an appeal by the State of Colorado (“Colorado”) and Colorado prison officials, challenging an order from the Colorado Federal District Court directing the State of Colorado to close the maximum security unit of the Colorado State Penitentiary at Canon City (“Old Max”). Inmate Fidel Ramos filed a complaint alleging that the conditions …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Assault,
Budget,
Cruel and unusual punishment,
Cruel treatment,
Emergency care,
Food,
Food safety,
Garbage,
Health care professionals,
Health care workers,
Health expenditures,
Health facilities,
Health funding,
Health spending,
Imprisonment,
Inappropriate treatment,
Incarceration,
Inhuman treatment,
Inmate,
Jail,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Misdiagnosis,
Prison conditions,
Psychiatry,
Psychology,
Sewage,
Trash,
Waste,
Waste management
Country:
Netherlands Year: 1979
Court: European Court of Human Rights
Citation: Application No. 6301/73; (1979) 2 EHRR 387; [1979] ECHR 4
Health Topics:
Mental health Human Rights: Freedom of movement and residence,
Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: Winterwerp brought an action against the Netherlands following his detention in a psychiatric hospital. Winterwerp was committed to a psychiatric hospital in accordance with the emergency procedure then in force under the Act on State Supervision of Mentally Ill Persons. Six weeks later, during Winterwerp’s emergency detention, his wife applied for his provisional detention at …Read more
Tags: Compulsory commitment,
Compulsory confinement,
Detainee,
Detention,
Incompetence,
Involuntary commitment,
Involuntary confinement,
Mandatory commitment,
Mandatory confinement,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Psychiatry,
Psychology
Country:
United States Year: 1975
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 422 U.S. 563 (1975)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Mental health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: Respondent, Donaldson, was civilly committed to confinement as a mental patient in the Florida State Hospital in 1957; he was kept in custody against his will for nearly 15 years. Petitioner, O’Connor, the hospital’s superintendent, had repeatedly refused Donaldson’s requests to be released. Donaldson’s requests for ground privileges, occupational training, and an opportunity to discuss …Read more
Tags: Access to treatment,
Compulsory commitment,
Involuntary commitment,
Mandatory commitment,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution
Country:
United States Year: 1972
Court: Federal District Court of Alabama
Citation: 325 F.Supp. 781 (1971)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Health systems and financing,
Hospitals,
Mental health Human Rights: Right to health Facts: Plaintiffs, the guardians of patients confined at Bryce Hospital, Alabama (the Hospital) and certain employees of the Alabama Mental Health Board assigned to the Hospital, requested an order of reference for an authoritative determination of standards of the adequacy of the current and future mental treatment employed by the Hospital in effecting the right to …Read more
Tags: Access to health care,
Access to treatment,
Budget,
Health expenditures,
Health funding,
Health spending,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Mental retardation,
Primary care,
Psychiatry,
Psychology,
Public hospitals
Country:
United States Year: 1967
Court: District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
Citation: 387 F.2d 241 (1967)
Health Topics:
Mental health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial Facts: Petitioner Rouse brought this habeas corpus action alleging that he had been unlawfully committed to a hospital for the mentally ill because he had not voluntarily and knowingly introduced the insanity defense or authorized his attorney to do so during his trial on a misdemeanor charge of carrying a weapon without a license. When he …Read more
Tags: Compulsory commitment,
Incapacity,
Incompetence,
Insanity,
Involuntary commitment,
Mandatory commitment,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Mental retardation,
Psychiatry,
Psychology
Country:
United States Year: 1966
Court: District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals
Citation: 373 F.2d 451 (1966)
Health Topics:
Mental health Human Rights: Right to health,
Right to liberty and security of person Facts: In 1962, Appellant Rouse was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital pursuant to D.C. Code § 24-301 after being found not guilty by reason of insanity of carrying a dangerous weapon, a misdemeanor for which the maximum imprisonment was one year. Rouse challenged his commitment on grounds of habeas corpus; he had been confined for …Read more
Tags: Compulsory commitment,
Incapacity,
Incompetence,
Insanity,
Involuntary commitment,
Mandatory commitment,
Mental competence,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution,
Mental retardation,
Psychiatry,
Psychology
Country:
United States Year: 1962
Court: Supreme Court
Citation: 369 U.S. 705 (1962)
Health Topics:
Health care and health services,
Mental health Human Rights: Right to due process/fair trial,
Right to health Facts: Petitioner, Lynch, was committed to the District of Columbia General Hospital under D.C. Code § 24-301(a) for a mental examination to determine his competence to stand trial. Petitioner faced charges related to drawing and negotiating checks ($50 each) with the knowledge of insufficient funds and entered a plea of not guilty in the Municipal Court. …Read more
Tags: Access to treatment,
Compulsory commitment,
Involuntary commitment,
Mandatory commitment,
Mental disability,
Mental disorder,
Mental illness,
Mental institution