Eckerhart v. Hensley

How courts have described this case

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• setting out “minimal constitutional standards for adequate treatment for patients committed to Lima State Hospital”, many of which standards are not met at the Bronx
• “[I]t is the duty of this Court to inquire whether the practices or conditions in a particular institution violate constitutional prohibitions or fail to provide what may be constitutionally required.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).