Zant v. Prevatte

How courts have described this case

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• holding that prison officials cannot force-feed mentally competent prisoner with no dependents
• holding that prison officials cannot force-feed mentally competent prisoner with no dependents
• “The State has not shown such a compelling interest... as would override [the constitutional right to privacy]”
• \The State has not shown such a compelling interest ... as would override [the constitutional right to privacy].\
• by virtue of his right of privacy, individual who is not mentally incompetent can refuse intrusions on his person, even though calculated to save his life
• prisoners retain the right to bodily privacy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).