Legal Opinion
Jurasek v. Utah State Hospital
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided October 14, 1998No. 97-4082PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BRISCOE, Circuit Judge.
Jan Jurasek appeals the district court’s entry of summary judgment in favor of defendants in this action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Jurasek, who was civilly committed and hospitalized for mental illness, claimed defendants violated his rights under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and his rights of free expression under the First Amendment by forcibly medicating him with psychotropic drugs. We exercise jurisdiction pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1291 and affirm.
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Jurasek is a paranoid schizophrenic who was civilly committed to the Utah State Hospital on…
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