Osgood v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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

• \[t]here is no serious dispute\ that administering psychotropic drugs against an inmate's will violated the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment
• “[T]he constitutional rights [the plaintiff] asserts were violated by the forcible administration of Haldol are not absolute, and must give way at least where such action is mandated by a compelling state interest: in this case the need to protect the safety of others.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).