No. 22-5631

Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Marsha McLane, Director, Texas Civil Commitment Office, et al.

Lower Court: Fifth Circuit
Docketed: 2022-09-20
Status: Dismissed
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process mental-health personal-liberty right-to-travel sanctuary state-sovereignty
Key Terms:
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Latest Conference: 2022-11-18
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does an individual have the right to personal security to move from a state that civilly committed him to another state to receive treatment and have his mental health reevaluated?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

Questions Presented Petitioner Lonnie Kade Welsh is Civilly Committed as a Sexually Violent Predator in the State of Texas. Twenty states follow the SVP Act model to civilly commit an individual and 30 do not. Lonnie Kade Welsh sought to be transferred to the State of Oklahoma to have that state evaluate his mental health and the need | to continually civilly commit him. Welsh sought to flee from Texas and petition | for sanctuary to become a citizen of the State of Oklahoma. The United States } Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit declined Welsh the right to travel. Therefore | the questions presented are: 1. Does an individual who is not under the disability of a criminal sentence have the right to personal security in the context to move from a state who civilly committed him for treatment to another state to receive treatment and have his mental health reevaluated under the laws of that state? 2. Can a state hold an individual forever within its boarders under a civil | regulation? 3. Are State sponsored instruments of oppression that keeps individuals confined in a prison type setting by a State made-up mental criteria, without any medical Justification acceptable in America or can a citizen of the United States seeks amnesty in another State, to chose a new sovereign that would allow him to be a freeman in their society with only registration requirements? 1 .

Docket Entries

2022-11-21
The motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis is denied, and the petition for a writ of certiorari is dismissed. See Rule 39.8.
2022-11-03
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/18/2022.
2022-08-30
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due October 20, 2022)

Attorneys

Lonnie Kade Welsh
Lonnie Kade Welsh — Petitioner