Legal Opinion
Zinermon v. Burch
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 27, 1990No. 87-1965PublishedCited by 3,354 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blackmun
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Respondent Darrell Burch brought this suit under 42 U. S. C. §1983 (1982 ed.)1 against the 11 petitioners, who are physicians, administrators, and staff members at Florida State Hospital (FSH) in Chattahoochee, and others. Re*115spondent alleges that petitioners deprived him of his liberty, without due process of law, by admitting him to FSH as a “voluntary” mental patient when he was incompetent to give informed consent to his admission. Burch contends that in his case petitioners should have afforded him procedural safeguards required by the Constitution before involuntary commitment of a…
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