John Doe v. Charles W. Gaughan

How courts have described this case

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• holding that initial six-month and subsequent one-year commitment periods under Mass. Gen. L. c. 123, § 8 are “reasonably related to the purpose of [patients’] confinement and therefore does not violate [their] due process rights under Jackson v. Indiana”
• “When a state decides to confer a benefit upon a segment of its population, it may decline to provide the exact same level of benefits to another segment, so long as its decision is rational.”
• “When a state decides to confer a benefit upon a segment of its population, it may decline to provide the exact same level of benefits to another segment, so long as its decision is rational.”
• distinguishing between confinement in jail and in treatment facility
• state mental hospital not a \penal institution\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).