Administration of psychotropic medication; due process

Other Federal CircuitsPsychotropic MedicationRight to RefuseInvoluntary MedicationCivil ActionMental Health Providers

Jul 18

Johnson v. Tinwalla, 855 F.3d 747 (7th Cir. 2017)

Seventh Circuit reverses summary judgment awarded by the district court to facility physician who prescribed and arranged for dispensing of psychotropic medication over an inmate’s objection, finding that an inmate can pursue claims that his resulting unknowing taking of the medication violated his constitutional due process rights and constituted common law medical battery.

Found in DMHL Volume 36, Issue 2

Katherine Faris

Administration of psychotropic medication; due process

Johnson v. Tinwalla, 855 F.3d 747 (7th Cir. 2017)

Found in DMHL Volume 36, Issue 2

Exhaustion doctrine—modification when claimant compromised by mental illness

Intellectual disability; execution