involuntary-treatment

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Case Title Lower Court Docketed Status Flags Tags Question Presented
22-7513 Jordan Nathaniel Mitchell v. John Stone, et al. Fourth Circuit 2023-05-10 Denied IFP civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection false-imprisonment government-misconduct incarceration involuntary-treatment medical-consent medical-treatment state-law Question not identified.
22-5126 Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States Fifth Circuit 2022-07-19 Denied Response WaivedIFP burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of Mr. Brooks' Motion for Unconditional Release. 2) Whether the Fifth Cir…
20-6812 Keith McCoy v. Michael Atherton, et al. Seventh Circuit 2021-01-08 Denied IFP appellate-procedure civil-rights due-process equal-protection inter-prison-transfer involuntary-treatment liberty-interest mental-health prison-transfer pro-se-representation state-law stigma 1. Did the Appeals Court err though McCoy might have had a liberty interest in avoiding transfer to a mental hospital for involuntary psychiatric trea…
19-7302 Latefah Shampine v. Sarver's Realty, et al. Sixth Circuit 2020-01-15 Denied Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP civil-procedure civil-rights due-process evidence-and-witnesses forced-drugging forced-medication free-speech hearsay hearsay-evidence involuntary-treatment judicial-misconduct jurisdiction-dispute racial-discrimination standing Constitutionally speaking, how could Petitioner retain an attorney when she was forced to plead guilty, in Judge Kathleen Satula court, to a horrendou…
19-6393 Jean-Paul Gamarra v. United States District of Columbia 2019-10-24 Denied Response WaivedIFP civil-rights competency criminal-competency criminal-procedure due-process expert-testimony involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health psychiatric-testimony trial-fairness In Sell v. United States, 539 U.S. 166, 179 (2003), this Court held that "the Constitution permits the Government involuntarily to administer antipsyc…
18-8407 Gregory Scott Savoy v. Craig M. Burns, et al. Fourth Circuit 2019-03-15 Denied IFP antipsychotic-drugs brain-volume brain-volume-reduction civil-rights constitutional-equity due-process equity involuntary-treatment judicial-deference medical-coercion mental-health Considering that "extreme legality is the worst law" (Cicero, "De Officiis," 44 B.C.) and that there are victims and survivors of the schizophrenia sp…