Keyhea v. Rushen

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• holding that state prisoners have a statutory right under California Penal Code § 2600 to refuse psychiatric medication unless there is 28 a judicial finding that they are incompetent to make that choice
• holding that state prisoners have a statutory right under California Penal Code § 2600 to refuse psychiatric medication unless there is 28 a judicial finding that they are incompetent to make that choice
• authorizing involuntary administration of psychotropic medications to prisoners pursuant to appropriate procedural 28 protections
• prisoners are entitled to judicial determination of their competency to refuse treatment before they can be subjected to long-term [over 10 days] involuntary psychotropic medication

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