Legal Opinion
Lakey v. Taylor ex rel. Shearer
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided May 2, 2014No. 03-12-00207-CVPublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCOTT K. FIELD, Justice.
Disability Rights Texas, along with nine individuals, criminal defendants who have been found incompetent to stand trial (collectively, the Plaintiffs), sought declaratory and injunctive relief against the Commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services, claiming that the Department’s system of prioritizing the transfer of incompetent defendants to hospitals for competency-restoration treatment is unconstitutional. The Plaintiffs and the Commissioner filed competing motions for summary judgment on the Plaintiffs’ claims, and upon considering the…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- Gerstein v. PughSupreme Court of the United States · 1975
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