Henning v. United States

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• “the substantive rights recognized in Youngberg are limited to persons whose personal liberty has been substantially curtailed by the state”
• personal liberty of mentally retarded man not curtailed by state since voluntarily placed in home by parents
• mentally retarded adult's liberty not restrained by state where \the Fialkowskis were free to remove their son from [the state institution] if they wished [and] Walter Fialkowski himself enjoyed considerable freedom of movement.\
• entity that performed mental health intake services for the county and which referred plaintiffs' mentally retarded adult son owed him no affirmative duty of care because his parents voluntarily placed him in the institution and were free to remove him
• mentally retarded adult’s liberty not restrained by state where “the Fialkowskis were free to remove their son from [the state institution] if they wished [and] Walter Fialkowski himself enjoyed considerable freedom of movement.”
• entity that performed mental health intake services for the county and which referred plaintiffs' mentally retarded adult son owed him no affirmative duty of care because his parents voluntarily placed him in the institution and were free to remove him

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).