[DOWNLOAD] "Donaldson v. Oconnor" by United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit # Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Donaldson v. Oconnor
- Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
- Release Date : January 26, 1974
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 84 KB
Description
This case requires us to decide for the first time the far-reaching question whether the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees a right to treatment to persons involuntarily civilly committed to state mental hospitals. The plaintiff-appellee, Kenneth Donaldson, was civilly committed to the Florida State Hospital at Chattahootchee in January 1957, diagnosed as a "paranoid schizophrenic". He remained in that hospital for the next fourteen and a half years. During that time he received little or no psychiatric care or treatment.