Mills v. Rogers

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing common-law battery for unauthorized touchings by a physician and assuming liberty interests are implicated by involuntary administration of psychotropic drugs
• stating the right to refuse medical treatment emerged in part from the common law tort of battery
• stating the right to refuse medical treatment emerged in part from the common law tort of battery
• “[T]he right to refuse any medical treatment emerged from the doctrines of trespass and battery, which were applied to unauthorized touchings by a physician”
• the Constitution recognizes a liberty interest of mental hospital patients in avoiding the unwanted administration of antipsychotic drugs
• \State law may recognize liberty interests more extensive than those independently protected by the Federal Constitution.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).