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Faculty & Staff — UVA Mental Health Policy & Practices

WEBPast Faculty & Staff. Sarah Leser, MPH, MPP, was a research specialist working on projects related to mental health reform in Virginia with a special focus on mandatory …

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What is a Managed Care Organization

WEBKedar Dange, B.A. ILPPP Research Assistant MPH Candidate, Class of 2019 Kevin Farrelly, MPP ILPPP Research Specialist The following post provides an overview …

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Alternative Transportation for Virginians Experiencing …

WEBJohn (“Jack”) Hilles ILPPP Research Assistant University of Virginia B.A. Candidate, Class of 2020 Elena Kruse ILPPP Research Assistant Washington & …

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New Jersey Supreme Court Holds Affirmative Defense and Insanity …

WEBState v. Handy, 215 N.J.Super. 334, 73 A.3d 421 (2013) Overruling a prior and long-standing Appellate Court decision, the New Jersey Supreme Court held on …

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STATISTICS ABOUT MENTAL ILLNESS IN VIRGINIA JAILS

WEBLuke Siebert, B.A. ILPPP Research Assistant MPH Candidate Spring 2020 The following post provides an overview of mental illness within the criminal justice …

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8th Amendment — Case Law — UVA Mental Health …

WEBEighth Amendment right of jail inmate to be free from deliberate indifference to risk of suicide; qualified immunity. July 18, 2018/ Katherine Faris. Estate of Clark v. Walker, …

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Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics

WEBKedar Dange, B.A. ILPPP Research Assistant MPH Candidate, Class of 2019 CCBHC Model Overview Context Following enactment of the Protecting Access to …

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Mandatory Outpatient Treatment: An Overview of …

WEBSarah Leser, B.A. ILPPP Research Assistant MPP/MPH Candidate, Class of 2019 The following post provides an overview of mandatory outpatient treatment in …

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Schools — Case Law — UVA Mental Health Policy & Practices

WEBMinneapolis Public Schools, 124 S. Ct. 478 (2003) The Supreme Court declined to review a ruling of the Eighth Circuit that a school district provided an eleven-year-old boy with a …

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Fourth Amendment Liberty Interest During Mental Health Crisis — …

WEBThe Seventh Court ultimately affirmed the lower court’s grant of summary judgment to the defendants on the basis of qualified immunity, even assuming that the …

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About — UVA Mental Health Policy & Practices

WEBUVA Mental Health Policy & Practices is an interdisciplinary collaboration in mental health policy, law, and public health. Faculty and staff from the UVA Institute of Law, …

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Case Law — UVA Mental Health Policy & Practices

WEBSummers v. Syptak, 801 S.E.2d 422 (Va. 2017) The Virginia Supreme Court rules that in a claim by a patient that crude, offensive and sexually oriented remarks to the patient by …

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Excessive Force — Case Law

WEBSixth Circuit upholds summary judgment in favor of law enforcement officers sued for use of excessive force by estate of man who died while being physically subdued and tasered …

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Law Enforcement — Case Law

WEBLaw enforcement officials are often the first to respond to emergent mental health crises and health care providers at hospital emergency rooms are often the first to treat an …

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Parent May Be Denied Access to Child's Mental Health Records …

WEBIn re Berg, 886 A.2d 980 (N.H. 2005). Children may be receiving mental health services while their parents are in the process of becoming divorced. During a …

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Involuntary Commitment

WEBIn re Vencil Appeal of Pa. State Police, 152 A.3d 235 (Pa. 2017) Pennsylvania Supreme Court interprets Pennsylvania statute governing challenges to loss of right to possess …

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Virginia Supreme Court Holds Commitment Criteria Must Be Met …

WEBPaugh v. Commonwealth, 286 Va. 85, 743 S.E.3d. 277 (2013) The Virginia Supreme Court ruled on June 6, 2013, that Virginia Code § 37.2-821 requires a circuit …

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Requirements for Forcibly Medicating a Defendant Found …

WEBUnited States v. Evans, 404 F.3d 227 (4th Cir. 2005) The U.S. Supreme Court in Se// v. United States, 539 U.S. 166 (2003), held that the government may involuntarily …

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Washington Supreme Court Finds Competency Evaluation Open …

WEBState v. Chen, 309 P.3d 410 (Wash. 2013) Under Washington law, competency evaluations are confidential and available only to certain specified …

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Ineffective assistance of counsel

WEBThe Third Circuit also held that this failure to investigate amounted to ineffective assistance of counsel because counsel believed that Saranchak’s mental …

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Tenth Circuit Holds Insanity Defense Precludes “Acceptance

WEBUnited States v. Herriman, 739 F.3d 1250 (10th Cir. 2014) The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld on January 14, 2014, the district court’s refusal to give a …

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42 U.S.C Section 1983 Liability; Emergency Custody

WEBGoines v. Valley Cmty. Servs. Bd., No. 15-1589, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 8512 (4th Cir. May 9, 2016) Claim of Fourth Amendment seizure violation by officers who …

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