Incompetency - Judgments

Jun 25 1990 (FN)

Cruzan Vs. Director, Mdh

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-25-1990

..... court stressed that the analytic framework adopted in conroy was limited to elderly incompetent patients with shortened life expectancies and established alternative approaches to deal with a ..... would nevertheless remain free to fashion procedural protections to safeguard the interests of incompetents under these circumstances the constitution provides merely a framework here protections must be .....

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Jan 08 2013 (FN)

Ryan Vs. Valencia Gonzales

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jan-08-2013

..... federal habeas relief his counsel moved to stay the proceedings contending that gonzales mental incompetence prevented him from rationally communicating with or assisting counsel and that gonzales was ..... the equitable power to stay proceedings when they determine that habeas petitioners are mentally incompetent 13 neither petitioner disputes that d istrict courts ordinarily have authority to issue .....

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Jun 07 1972 (FN)

Jackson Vs. Indiana

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-07-1972

..... encountered precisely because the federal statutes have been construed to require that a mentally incompetent defendant must also be found dangerous before he can be committed indefinitely but ..... special institutions are appropriate psychiatric institutions under 9 1706a considering jackson s condition his incompetency commitment can still culminate in assignment to a special facility the state in .....

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Apr 16 1996 (FN)

Cooper Vs. Oklahoma

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Apr-16-1996

..... of the relevant commonlaw traditions of england and this country the prohibition against trying the incompetent defendant was well established by the time hale and blackstone wrote their famous commentaries ..... heightened standard of proof was permissible because the decisionmaker was a surrogate for the incompetent individual id at 280 281 and because the consequences of an erroneous decision were .....

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Jun 28 2007 (FN)

Panetti Vs. Quarterman

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-28-2007

..... inflicting the death penalty upon insane prisoners although the court therefore reviewed petitioner s incompetency claim without deferring to the state court s finding of competency it nevertheless granted ..... even a cursory eighth amendment analysis the court imposes a new standard for determining incompetency i respectfully dissent i the antiterrorism and effective death penalty act of 1996 aedpa .....

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Nov 07 1938 (FN)

Waialua Agricultural Co. Vs. Christian

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Nov-07-1938

..... set aside the contract or lease a decree was entered directing the reconveyance to the incompetent of her previously conveyed interest in the tract with adjustments for improvements footnote 1 the ..... the territorial supreme court in adjusting equities as to improvements by cross conveyances between the incompetent and the subsequent grantees is incorrect here if the company is entitled to an allowance .....

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Jun 18 1982 (FN)

Mills Vs. Rogers

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-18-1982

..... rights under both massachusetts common law and the federal constitution of a nonintitutionalized incompetent mental patient as to involuntary treatment with antipsychotic drugs held the court of ..... every instance in which a guardian believes drug therapy necessary for a noninstitutionalized incompetent footnote 24 in roe the massachusetts court explicitly considered the implicated state interests .....

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Feb 25 1992 (FN)

Medina Vs. California

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Feb-25-1992

..... justice blackmun with whom justice stevens joins dissenting teofilo medina jr may have been mentally incompetent when the state of california convicted him and sentenced him to death one psychiatrist ..... testified he was incompetent another psychiatrist and a psychologist testified he was not several other experts testified but .....

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Mar 09 2018 (SC)

Common Cause (A Regd. Society) Vs. Union of India

Court: Supreme Court of India

Decided on: Mar-09-2018

..... m the definition of a competent patient has to be understood by the definition of incompetent patient incompetent writ petition civil no 215 of 2005 page 94 of 112 patient means a ..... caused by injury disease or illness which results in severe and permanent deterioration indicated by incompetency and complete physical dependency for which treatment of the irreversible condition would be medically .....

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Jun 30 1958 (FN)

Beilan Vs. Board of Education

Court: US Supreme Court

Decided on: Jun-30-1958

..... not included within the more specific provisions consequently the pennsylvania courts have given incompetency a broad interpretation this was made clear in horosko v mt pleasant school ..... contract heretofore or hereafter entered into with a professional employe shall be immorality incompetency intemperance cruelty persistent negligence mental derangement persistent and willful violation of the school .....

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