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• Title: Johnson v. Brelje
• Author : United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
• Release Date : January 18, 1983
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 67 KB

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ESCHBACH, Circuit Judge. This case presents constitutional issues concerning the commitment of Illinois criminal defendants who are found unfit to stand trial (""USTs"") and are assigned to the Chester Mental Health Center (""Chester""). The district court held that Illinois's practice of assigning all male USTs to Chester violates procedural rights guaranteed by the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. The district court also determined that USTs at Chester are denied their constitutional rights to meaningful access to the courts. Furthermore, the court held that USTs' liberty interests in freedom to move around the grounds at Chester have been unconstitutionally infringed. We affirm the district court's judgments on these matters and we also agree with the lower court that the plaintiffs are not entitled to monetary damages. We remand the case, however, for recomputation of the amount of reasonable attorneys' fees that the plaintiffs are entitled to receive pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1988.

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