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I think this case was judicial restraint because it told the hospital they couldn't do anything like they did to Donaldson anymore because it was unconstitutional.

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Raymond W. Gearey, Jr.
-During his confinement Donaldson refused various forms of therapy other than medicine and electroshock

Bruce J. Ennis, Jr. held that Donaldson never actually refused any treatment.

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Q.Did the Fifth Circuit properly consider the trial court's failure to instruct the jury on O’Connor’s claimed reliance on state law?

A.No, Justice Stewart held that the fifth circuit must determine if the trial court properly instructed the jury on O’Connor’s reliance on state law.

vote: 9/9

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The Jury decided in favor of Donaldson
-O'Connor claimed he was acting in good faith but his appeal was rejected by the fifth circuit.

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Kenneth Donaldson Was admitted to a Florida hospital and diagnosed as a schizophrenic following a brief court hearing. After being told he would be institutionalized for "a few weeks" he was there for nearly fifteen years.  During this time Donaldson was kept in very confined. During this time he also refused electroshock treatment or take medication and claimed to only have received cognitive therapy no more than six times. J.B O'Conner(Assistant clinical director) along with the hospital provided Donaldson with minimal psychiatric treatment. And in 1971 Donaldson charged O'Connor and the hospital with maliciously depriving him of his liberty.

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The court unanimously decided in opposition to O'Connor
-Justice Stewart acknowledged that the state cannot constitutionally confine a non dangerous mentally-ill person.

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Chief Justice-Warren Burger

Associate justices
-Douglas
-Brennan
-Stewart
-White
-Marshall

-Blackmun
-Powell
-Rehnquist