B.A.A. v. Chief Medical Officer, University of Iowa Hospitals

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• substantive due process requires that involuntarily committed persons must continue to pose serious threat to themselves or others for such commitment to continue
• substantive due process requires that involuntarily committed persons must continue to pose serious threat to themselves or others for such commitment to continue
• “Because there was no showing that [B.A.A.] suffered from a serious mental impairment, the district court correctly terminated his involuntary hospitalization.”
• “[W]hen identical language is used in several places in an enactment, we ordinarily give it the same meaning.”
• addressing patient’s habe-as corpus petition for release from inpatient placement
• explaining dangerousness element creates a legitimate state interest in commitment

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).