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Mills Vs. Rogers

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 18, 1982

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  10. U.S. 291 (1982) U.S. Supreme Court Mills v. Rogers
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  11. U.S. 291 (1982) Mills v. Rogers
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  12. The District Court certified the case as a class action. See Rogers v. Okin
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  13. The Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirmed in part and reversed in part. Rogers v. Okin
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  14. we granted certiorari. Okin v. Rogers
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  15. Rennie v. Klein
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  16. as well as identification of the conditions under which competing state interests might outweigh it. See Youngberg v. Romeo
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  17. liberty interests more extensive than those independently protected by the Federal Constitution. See Greenholtz v. Nebraska
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  18. state-created liberty interests are entitled to the protection of the federal Due Process Clause, see, e.g., Vitek v. Jones
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  19. Greenholtz v. Nebraska
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  20. determined), with Addington v. Texas
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  21. Youngberg v. Romeo
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  22. that are to be balanced against an individual's liberty interests, this Court may look to state law. See, e.g., Roe v. Wade
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  23. It is this Court's settled policy to avoid unnecessary decisions of constitutional issues. See, e.g., City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's
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  24. New York Transit Authority v. Beazer
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  25. Ashwander v. TVA
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  26. policy is supported, although not always required, by the prohibition against advisory opinions. Cf. United States v. Hastings
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  27. of potentially dispositive state law questions to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, see Bellotti v. Baird
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  28. whether this is a case in which abstention now is appropriate. See generally Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  29. as Thorazine, Mellaril, Prolixin, and Haldol that are used in treating psychoses, especially schizophrenia. See Rogers v. Okin
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  30. especially around the mouth. Tardive dyskinesia can be even more disabling in its most severe forms. See Rogers v. Okin
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  31. which were applied to unauthorized touchings by a physician. See, e.g., Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz
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  32. for the Second Circuit has held that civil commitment does not raise even a presumption of incompetence. See Winters v. Miller
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  33. Cf. Superintendent of Belchertown v. Saikewicz
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  34. of committed mental patients to refuse antipsychotic drugs have been presented in other recent cases, including Rennie v. Klein
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  35. F.2d 836 (CA3 1981), and Davis v. Hubbard
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  36. committed mental patients do retain liberty interests protected directly by the Constitution, cf. O'Connor v. Donaldson
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  37. Although the Massachusetts court quoted this formulation from the decision of the Court of Appeals in Rogers v. Okin
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  38. the quotation is used to define the right, rather than to identify its legal source. Roe noted that Rogers v. Okin
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  39. U.S. Supreme Court Mills v. Rogers
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  40. See Rogers v. Okin
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  41. Rogers v. Okin
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  42. Okin v. Rogers
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  43. See Youngberg v. Romeo
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  44. the Federal Constitution. See Greenholtz v. Nebraska
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  45. Addington v. Texas
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  46. City of Mesquite v. Aladdin's
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  47. Cf. United States v. Hastings
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  48. Colorado River Water Conservation Dist. v. United
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  49. Superintendent of Belchertown State School v. Saikewicz
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  50. See Winters v. Miller
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