Rogers v. Commissioner of the Department of Mental Health

How courts have described this case

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• noting that commitment under G. L. c. 123, §§ 7 and 8, \is for public safety purposes\
• each person has strong interest in being free from nonconsensual invasion of his bodily integrity
• “[i]t is probable that most patients would wish to avoid a steadily worsening condition”
• substitute judgment determination must be made before administration of antipsy-chotic drugs to incompetent patient
• the right to forego treatment has constitutional and common law origins
• case involved forced treatment with antipsychotic medication of institutionalized mental patients

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).