State Ex Rel. Schuetzle v. Vogel

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing person’s constitutionally protected liberty interest to refuse unwanted medical treatment and balancing liberty interest against relevant state penological interest
• describing individual autonomy in medical decisions as a “fundamentally commanding” interest with “well-established legal and philosophical underpinnings”
• recognizing liberty interest to refuse unwanted medical treatment
• future medical cost of allowing diabetic prisoner to refuse treatment justified forced injections of insulin

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).