Rubie Rogers v. Robert Okin, M.D., Etc., Rubie Rogers v. Robert Okin, M.D., Etc.

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing a liberty procedural due process claim involving the involuntary commitment of mental patients
• applying res judicata to bar claims against members of state commission in second action based on a judgment in a prior action brought against the commission itself
• “Every circuit court that has considered this provision has held in essence that an exclusion applicable to one defendant applies to all codefendants”
• “The interpretation and enforcement regime that matters to Plaintiffs’ Commerce Clause claim is that which the ILCC has adopted”
• answers to a certified question “do not constitute a directly enforceable judgment” and, therefore, “plaintiff could not obtain from a federal or state court a contempt citation for defendants’ violation of the answers”
• certification is a substitute for abstention, rather than a complement to it

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).