title: Constitutional law--due process requires that limits be placed on psychiatric confinement commensurate with the procedural safeguards employed in obtaining that confinement.
authors.forename: Christopher B
authors.initials: CB
authors.lastname: Ashton
mesh_terms: D002961:Civil Rights; D003134:Commitment of Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D006801:Humans; D007603:Jurisprudence; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders; D013219:State Government