Herer v. Burns

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• rejecting Eighth Amendment claims of involuntarily committed patients on ground that Eighth Amendment applies only to punishment imposed after conviction
• allowing relatives of patient involuntarily committed to Virginia hos- pital to file § 1983 action in federal court without exhausting reme- dies provided by Virginia Medical Malpractice Act

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).