Legal Opinion
Nason v. Superintendent of Bridgewater State Hospital
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided February 5, 1968PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCutter, J.
In Nason v. Commissioner of Mental Health, 351 Mass. 94, 98, this court held that the commissioner could not be compelled by mandamus to make available proper psychiatric treatment to Nason, a patient at Bridge-water State Hospital (Bridgewater). Cases were cited, however, where “the legality . . . of . . . confinement” had been tested either by habeas corpus or by comparable statutory relief.
Nason now seeks a writ of habeas corpus. His petition contains allegations (confirmed by findings of the special commissioner mentioned below) that he is in custody at Bridgewater in the following…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Specht v. PattersonSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
- Baxstrom v. HeroldSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Watson v. City of MemphisSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
- Charles C. Rouse v. Dale C. Cameron, Superintendent, Saint Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
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3Cited by34 opinions
- People v. FeagleyCalifornia Supreme Court · 1975
- Kenneth Donaldson v. J. B. O'connor, M.D. And John Gumanis, M.D.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1974
- United States of America Ex Rel. Roy Schuster, Relator-Appellant v. Ross E. Herold, M.D., Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Dannemora, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Rubie Rogers, and Cross-Appellants v. Robert Okin, M.D., and Cross-AppelleesCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1980
- Welsch v. LikinsDistrict Court, D. Minnesota · 1974
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