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May You Stay Forever Young: Robert Sadoff And The History Of Mental Disability Law, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2005

May You Stay Forever Young: Robert Sadoff And The History Of Mental Disability Law, Michael L. Perlin

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The path of mental disability law over the past 35 years bears the stamp of the work of Dr. Robert L. Sadoff, one of the leading forensic psychiatrists in the nation. This article tracks the development of civil commitment law, right to treatment law, and right to refuse treatment law, and demonstrates the crucial roles that Dr. Sadoff has played in each of these.


Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Outpatient Commitment Law: Kendra’S Law As Case Study, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2003

Therapeutic Jurisprudence And Outpatient Commitment Law: Kendra’S Law As Case Study, Michael L. Perlin

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What's Good Is Bad, What's Bad Is Good, You'll Find Out When You Reach The Top, You're On The Bottom: Are The Americans With Disabilities Act (And Olmstead V. L.C.) Anything More Than 'Idiot Wind', Michael L. Perlin Jan 2002

What's Good Is Bad, What's Bad Is Good, You'll Find Out When You Reach The Top, You're On The Bottom: Are The Americans With Disabilities Act (And Olmstead V. L.C.) Anything More Than 'Idiot Wind', Michael L. Perlin

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Mental Disability law is contaminated by "sanism," an irrational prejudice similar to such other irrational prejudices as racism and sexism. The passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - a statute that focused specifically on questions of stereotyping and stigma - appeared at first to offer an opportunity too deal frontally with sanist attitudes and, optimally, to restructure the way that citizens with mental disabilities were dealt with by the remainder of society. However, in its first decade, the ADA did not prove to be a panacea for such persons. The Supreme Court's 1999 decision in Olmstead v. L.C. …


Their Promises Of Paradise: Will Olmstead V. L.C. Resuscitate The Constitutional Least Restrictive Alternative Principle In Mental Disability Law, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2000

Their Promises Of Paradise: Will Olmstead V. L.C. Resuscitate The Constitutional Least Restrictive Alternative Principle In Mental Disability Law, Michael L. Perlin

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This article argues that the Supreme Court's decision in Olmstead v. L.C., 119 S. Ct. 2176 (1999), finding a qualified right to community treatment and services for certain institutionalized persons under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and endorsing an "integration mandate," forces us to reconsider the role of the "least restrictive alternative" in institutional mental disability law, and may serve to resuscitate and revitalize the constitutional foundations of that principle in this area of the law. In this context, Olmstead has the capacity to be the Supreme Court's most therapeutic mental disability law decision since that Court decided, in …


A Law Of Healing, Michael L. Perlin Jan 2000

A Law Of Healing, Michael L. Perlin

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Corrections Law: The Supreme Court And Treatment In Correctional And Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Recent Trends And Decisions, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1994

Corrections Law: The Supreme Court And Treatment In Correctional And Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Recent Trends And Decisions, Michael L. Perlin

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What Is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1993

What Is Therapeutic Jurisprudence?, Michael L. Perlin

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Sanism, Social Science, And The Development Of Mental Disability Law Jurisprudence, Michael L. Perlin, D.A. Dorfman Jan 1993

Sanism, Social Science, And The Development Of Mental Disability Law Jurisprudence, Michael L. Perlin, D.A. Dorfman

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This article examines the way that "sanist" attitudes (attitudes driven by the same kind of irrational, unconscious and bias-driven stereotypes exhibited in racist and sexist decisionmaking) lead to "pretextual" decisions (in which dishonest testimony is either explicitly or implicitly accepted) in mental disability law jurisprudence. In conjunction with these sanist ends, social science data is teleologically employed by legal decisionmakers, so that it is privileged when it supports a conclusion that the fact-finder wishes to reach but subordinated when it questions such a conclusion. The article examines recent Supreme Court cases in an effort to determine the extent of domination …


Decoding Right To Refuse Treatment Law, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1993

Decoding Right To Refuse Treatment Law, Michael L. Perlin

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Economic Rights Of The Institutionalized Mentally Disabled, Michael L. Perlin Jan 1987

Economic Rights Of The Institutionalized Mentally Disabled, Michael L. Perlin

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The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination In Civil Commitment Proceedings, Marianne Wesson Jan 1980

The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination In Civil Commitment Proceedings, Marianne Wesson

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