Cephalon, Inc. v. Apotex, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that any deadline for pretrial competency evaluations established by the district court should be based upon constitutional reasonableness standards and comparable state policy, in addition to what is feasible and achievable
• finding that the Fourteenth Amendment was the proper framework for evaluating § 1983 claims against Washington State Hospital for delays in transfer of incompetent detainees
• plaintiffs in a 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action were members of a class of pretrial detainees suspected of being mentally incompetent, next friends of such pretrial detainees, and disability rights organization
• “competency-related delays are not relevant to the speedy trial inquiry”
• discussing 4 Washington’s process for competency evaluations and restoration services

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).