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- Title
THE FAILURE OF THE FEDERAL COURTS TO INCORPORATE O'CONNOR'S DANGEROUSNESS REQUIREMENT INTO THE STANDARDS UTILIZED IN ACTIONS CHALLENGING WRONGFUL CIVIL COMMITMENTS.
- Authors
Walke, Svetlana
- Abstract
The article discusses what the author refers to as the failure of U.S. federal courts to incorporate a dangerous requirement from the 1975 U.S. Supreme Court mental illness law case O’Connor v. Donaldson into the standards used to legal actions challenging wrongful civil commitments as of 2015. Criminal sentences and the legal rights of mentally ill criminals are examined, along with American civil rights and due process of law protections.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COMMITMENT &; detention of people with mental illness; FEDERAL courts; O'CONNOR v. Donaldson (Supreme Court case); LEGAL status of violent criminals; LEGAL status of criminals with mental illness; CIVIL rights; DUE process of law; MENTAL illness; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); LAW
- Publication
Touro Law Review, 2015, Vol 31, Issue 1, p149
- ISSN
8756-7326
- Publication type
Article