Class Action and the Right to Treatment
Abstract
The author gives a brief history of patients' struggle for rights beginning with suits brought by individual patients who were criminally committed and culminating in a class-action suit on behalf of those who were involuntarily civilly committed. As an example of how class-action cases develop, he describes his experience as a defendant in a suit in Massachusetts that charged him and several of his associates with mistreatment of retarded individuals in a state school.
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