Wait v. Commonwealth

How courts have described this case

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

• assuming that “the procedural protections afforded in the MHL . . . are what is required here for procedural due process” in the context of an involuntary restraint claim
• “[T]he Supreme Court made clear ... that mentally ill individuals have a right to be free from bodily restraint except in situations where professional judgment deems restraint necessary to assure the patient’s safety or the safety of others.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).