State May Force-Feed Prison Inmate Who Is on a Hunger Strike

(Eugene Volokh)

So holds the Connecticut Supreme Court in Commissioner of Correction v. Coleman (Mar. 13, 2012) (tomorrow's news today!). The court rejects the inmate's common-law claims, the inmate's constitutional claims, and the inmate's appeal to supposed internationally recognized legal standards; it also canvasses past cases from other states.