Myers v. Alaska Psychiatric Institute

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an individual has a fundamental liberty and privacy right in his or her own medical treatment
• holding that the right to refuse to take psychotropic drugs is “fundamental” under the Alaska Constitution
• holding that the involuntary administration of psychotropic medication implicates a patient’s rights to liberty and privacy under the Alaska Constitution
• holding that the right to refuse to take psychotropic drugs is “fundamental” under the Alaska Constitution
• holding that an individual has a fundamental liberty and privacy right in his or her own medical treatment
• noting that the State has a compelling interest, under its parens patriae obligation, to protect the health of civilly committed individuals in certain situations

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).