WISDOM, Circuit Judge: In this case, we must decide whether federal district courts have the power to order state mental institutions to provide minimum levels of psychiatric care and treatment 1 to persons civilly committed to the institutions. The guardians of patients civilly committed to three Alabama facilities for the mentally handicapped brought this class action on b…
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