No. 25-6201

Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al.

Lower Court: Fourth Circuit
Docketed: 2025-11-21
Status: Denied
Type: IFP
IFP
Tags: attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment
Latest Conference: 2026-01-23
Question Presented (from Petition)

Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney General's Office dismissed the case of Virginia statute and case law for civil commitment purposes?

Question No. 2: Whether the behavior of the Commonwealth of Virginia's Attorney General's Office, acting and civil commitment, should be subject to punitive action against those sent to give act without reviewing the requirements of the statute?

Question No. 3: Should the decision of the Virginia court be set aside and the civil commitment case be dismissed or remanded back to the circuit court for a new trial to better serve the ends of justice because the court's decision was harmless error?

Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether the Virginia Attorney General's office's discretionary decisions regarding state statutes and case law for civil commitments violate equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment

Docket Entries

2026-01-26
Petition DENIED.
2026-01-08
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/23/2026.
2025-11-17
Petition for a writ of certiorari and motion for leave to proceed in forma pauperis filed. (Response due December 22, 2025)

Attorneys

Frank P. Ferrara
Frank Paul Ferrara — Petitioner