United New York Sandy Hook Pilots Ass'n v. Den Norske Amerikalinje

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• holding that “mentally ill or developmentally disabled [persons] have a Federal constitutionally protected liberty interest to refuse the administration of psychotropic drugs”
• holding that “mentally ill or developmentally disabled [persons] have a Federal constitutionally protected liberty interest to refuse the administration of psychotropic drugs”
• holding that mentally ill patients have a constitutional liberty interest in refusing psychotropic medication
• recognizing that, pursuant to Washington v. Harper, 494 U.S. 210 (1990), a mentally ill person has a “liberty interest, under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment to the United States Constitution, in refusing the administration of psychotropic medication”
• explaining that this statutory language \must be considered in the context of the mental illness or disability from which the mental health recipient is suffering\
• rejecting a constitutional challenge to section 2 — 107.1 partly on the basis of section 2 — 102

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