Robert W. Phillips v. James Thompson

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• no denial of liberty of movement to deny community placement to several hundred higher functioning mentally retarded adults and to place those individuals in institutions; post-Youngberg decision
• no denial of liberty of movement to deny community placement to several hundred higher functioning mentally retarded adults and to place those individuals in institutions; post-Youngberg decision
• patients voluntarily admitted to state facility possessed no substantive due process right under the fourteenth amendment to care in a community residential setting

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