...longer existed. Jackson v. /ndinna. tuprn, at 738; MtNeil \. Director, Patuxtnt Institution, svpra. A finding of "mental illness" alone cannot justify...simple custodial confinement. Assuming that that term con he given a reasonably precise content and that the "mentally ill" can be identified with reasonable...

...Donaldson, (US Law Week, 1975) the Supreme Court has indicated what conditions will not justify involuntary commitment: A finding of "mental illness" alone cannot...indefinitely in simple custodial confinement. Assuming that the term can be given a reasonably precise content and that the "mentally ill" can be identified with...

...ability of mental institutions to keep patients against their will. The Court held unanimously that a "finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify...him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement." ' The Mental Health Association, then, recognizes the great potential for progress through litigation....

...June, 1975, the Supreme Court held that a mere judgment of mental illness "cannot justify a state's 88 locking a person up against his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement" if he "is capable of surviving by himself" or with the help of family or friends. Three years earlier,...

...ability of mental institutions to keep patients against their will. The Court held unanimously that a "finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify a State's locking a person up agalsnt his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement." 3 The Mental Health...

...Donaldson (1975) is crucial to the patients' rights movement the Court r uled: Tn IT s clec isi on , "A finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify...indefinitely in simple custodial confinement. Assuming that term can be given a reasonably precise content and that the 'mentally ill' can be identified with reasonable...

...ability of mental institutions to keep patients against their will. The Court held unanimously that a "finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify...him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement." 3 The Mental Health Association, then recognizes the great potential for progress ^ through litigation....

...ability of mental institutions to keep patients against their will. The Court held unanimously that a "finding of 'mental illness" alone cannot justify...him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement." 3 The Mental Health Association, then recognizes the great potential for progress through litigation....

...said in O'Connors. Donaldson in 1975, that: ... a finding of mental illness alone cannot justify the state's locking a person up against his will and keeping...indefinitely in simple custodial confinement. Assuming that term can be given a reasonably precise content, and that the mentally ill can be identified with reasonable...

...paternalist need-for-treatment criteria popular through the 19605, Justice Potter Stewart held that a finding of "'mental illness' alone cannot justify...him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement." Even if mental illness could be defined more accurately than the present state of psychiatry allows,...