WISDOM, Circuit Judge: This case requires us to decide for the first time the far-reaching question whether the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees a right to treatment to persons involuntarily civilly committed to state mental hospitals. The plaintiff-ap-pellee, Kenneth Donaldson, was civilly committed to the Florida State Hospital at…
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