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2. List of United States Supreme Court cases involving mental ...

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   The Court found that mentally retarded persons are not a 'suspect' class of persons (requiring the same level of protection as racial minorities); thus, governments are free to enact almost any legislation or rule to civilly commit them, and the courts will not intervene, short of illegal or ridiculous actions (called 'rational' scrutiny). [4] 14th

3. US Justice Department finds violations in Oklahoma's ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The state of Oklahoma is violating federal law by unnecessarily committing people with mental illness and drug abuse disorders to psychiatric hospitals, the U.S. Justice ...

4. Involuntary commitment by country - Wikipedia

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   A peace officer, without a warrant, if A) the officer believes that 1) the person is mentally ill, 2) because of that mental illness "there is a substantial risk of serious harm to the person or to others unless the person is immediately restrained", and B) the officer also believes that there is insufficient time to obtain a warrant. [48]

5. Mentally ill people in United States jails and prisons

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   In the 1984 study Criminalizing mental disorder: The comparative arrest rate of the mentally ill, researcher L. A. Taplin notes that in addition to a decline in federal support for mental illness resulting in more people being denied treatment, mentally ill people are often stereotyped as dangerous, making fear a factor in action taken against ...

6. Lawmakers frustrated by deficiency in handling mentally ill ...

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   Feb. 6—Some legislators openly expressed their frustrations at state mental health experts for their lack of data and specifics on how to best deal with mentally ill criminal defendants and keep ...

7. Family demands answers after LAPD officers fatally shoot ...

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   The department has expanded its training on dealing with people in emotional distress, even as its leaders have acknowledged that not all mental health emergencies require the presence of armed ...