civil-commitment
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6632 | Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | IFP | attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action | Whether a plaintiff can sue his former attorney under the color of state law for actions during a civil commitment trial |
| 25-833 | Duane Letroy Berry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe… |
| 25-6419 | Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment | QP: Whether the 11th Circuit failed to comply with Farmer v. Brennan in assessing deliberate indifference when defendants knew of a serious risk of ha… |
| 25-6201 | Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment | Whether the Virginia Attorney General's office's discretionary decisions regarding state statutes and case law for civil commitments violate equal pro… |
| 25-5292 | John Charles Volungus v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | IFP | adam-walsh-act civil-commitment conditional-release district-court-authority medical-treatment statutory-interpretation | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248(e) permits district courts to impose additional conditions of release beyond medical treatment compliance or only allow relea… |
| 25-5193 | Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment due-process facial-challenge legislative-intent punitive-intent rule-59-motion | Whether the District Court and Fifth Circuit improperly denied Petitioner's opportunity to provide 'clearest proof' that a Texas civil commitment act … |
| 24-7259 | In Re Kenja Omari Deangelo Carmichael | 2025-05-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health-examination prisoner-rights | Whether a prisoner can be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment through continuous harassment and torture by prison staff, and whether civil commi… | |
| 24-6861 | Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness | Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri… |
| 24-500 | Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar | Whether the actual innocence exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by a procedural bar should… |
| 24-5090 | Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff… |
| 23A1114 | Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review | Whether the Due Process Clause requires a deliberate indifference or professional judgment standard for medical care claims brought by civilly committ… | |
| 23-1273 | Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health, Human and Veteran Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process heck-precedent heck-v-humphrey psychotropic-drugs section-1983 willful-indifference | Is Heck v. Humphrey precedent to require persons subject to civil commitment proceedings not related to a criminal proceeding to vacate the commitment… |
| 23-7418 | James Dow Vandivere v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | IFP | adam-walsh-act burden-of-proof civil-commitment due-process foucha-v-louisiana judicial-procedure kansas-v-hendricks liberty-interest | Whether the lower courts have impermissibly shifted the burden of proof from the Government to a citizen-detainee at a release hearing under the Adam … |
| 23A991 | Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-litigation civil-commitment court-assigned-counsel due-process student-representation supreme-court-practice | Whether a civil commitment proceeding satisfies constitutional due process requirements when conducted by an appellate litigation clinic with student-… | |
| 23-7290 | Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation | Whether the district court properly committed Appellant to the custody and care of the Attorney General pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246 |
| 23-7189 | A. R. P. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-10 | Denied | IFP | baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation | Did Florida's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constitutional i… |
| 23-7151 | Carolyn Sioux Green v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services, et al. | Washington | 2024-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chemical-lobotomy civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-representation statute-of-limitations | Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be applied to a violation of the constitutional right to due process? |
| 23-7048 | Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing | Whether the Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause requires the government to provide a higher level of procedural protections for individuals faci… |
| 23-5129 | Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-07-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria | Whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process rights |
| 22-7844 | Frank James v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-delay state-created-right state-created-rights | Whether a state prisoner's claim of delay in the commencement of a civil commitment proceedings implicates the constitutional right to due process |
| 22-7067 | Thomas Powers v. Greg Donathan | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process illinois-sexual-violent-persons-act involuntary-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the petitioner is entitled to release from involuntary detention |
| 22-6958 | Thomas Powers v. David Doll, et al. | Illinois | 2023-03-08 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-detainee civil-rights due-process illinois-supreme-court legal-malpractice sexual-violent-person-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether a pre-trial detainee has a right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty |
| 22-718 | Louisiana v. Jamaal Edwards | Louisiana | 2023-02-01 | Denied | Amici (2) | civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law dangerous-individual due-process judicial-precedent mental-health mental-health-law precedent public-safety sanity-acquittee | Whether this Court's plurality opinion in Foucha v. Louisiana, 504 U.S. 71 (1992), which prevents States from continuing to hold insanity acquittees w… |
| 22-6496 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bryan Collier, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2023-01-09 | Dismissed | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-acquittal due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health psychological-disorder sexually-violent-predator treatment | Does an individual who has been diagnosed with a state created psychological disorder have a right to treatment equal to those who the medical communi… |
| 22-5631 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Marsha McLane, Director, Texas Civil Commitment Office, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process mental-health personal-liberty right-to-travel sanctuary state-sovereignty | 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 … |
| 22-5521 | Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law | Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able… |
| 22-5126 | Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review | whether-the-fifth-circuit-erred-by-affirming-the-district-court's-denial-of-mr-brooks'-motion-for-unconditional-release |
| 21-6965 | Lawtis Donald Rhoden v. Brandon Price, Executive Director of Coalinga State Hospital | Ninth Circuit | 2022-01-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights dangerousness due-process fourteenth-amendment involuntary-commitment mental-disorder mental-health sexually-violent-predator state-hospitals unconditional-discharge | Whether the current version of the California SVP law violates the due process clause |
| 21-5276 | William H. Bransford v. Dan Winkelski, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa-standard appellate-counsel civil-commitment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining | When does constructive abandonment by appointed appellate attorney occur during direct appeal? |
| 21-5034 | K. E. K. v. Waupaca County, Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process government-authority involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention patient-dangerousness recent-acts | Whether a statute authorizing the government to extend an involuntary civil commitment without evidence of any recent acts indicating that the patient… |
| 20-7942 | Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings | How can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act be constitutional when legislative acts are require… |
| 20-7642 | Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process | Can the State of Florida and federal courts in Florida, including the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, deprive Mr. Fetzer of his substantive constitutio… |
| 20-7619 | Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial | Whether the courts should have conducted a Barker-v-Wingo analysis on the 8-year delay for civil commitment hearing |
| 20-7361 | Robert Eugene Ayers v. Virginia | Virginia | 2021-03-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment incorporation-doctrine jury-trial mental-health seventh-amendment sexual-predator sexually-violent-predator | Was Petitioner entitled by the Incorporation of the Seventh Amendment's Jury Trial Clause into the Fourteenth Amendment to Trial By Jury in a State Ci… |
| 20-5846 | Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity | Whether the 8th Circuit's decision is contrary to Kingsley |
| 20-5542 | Devin M. Kugler v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-limitation due-process juvenile-adjudication life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-precedent sexually-violent-person | Whether this Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which prohibits life sentences for juveniles, prevents a court from civilly c… |
| 20-5471 | Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention liberty liberty-interest sexual-predator state-power | Should such disfavored persons, involuntarily civilly imprisoned as sexual violent predators, be deprived of fair notice and warning and continually r… |
| 20-5165 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity | Whether the State of Texas caused a fundamental miscarriage of justice by refusing to overturn a criminal sentence despite evidence of lack of mental … |
| 20-5164 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity | Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi… |
| 20-5163 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity | Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the crimi… |
| 19-8550 | Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment due-process equal-protection Foucha-v-Louisiana liberty mental-illness | Whether civil commitment can be continued based on a 'fictional future behavior/crime' in violation of Foucha v. Louisiana |
| 19-8292 | Russell Tinsley v. Sherry Yates, Administrator, Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-04-17 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-commitment constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process fauntleroy-doctrine full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction | Whether the New Jersey civil commitment of Mr. Tinsley was a violation of the Fauntleroy doctrine and/or jurisdiction of the Full Faith and Credit Cla… |
| 19-7428 | Timothy O'Laughlin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process personal-liberty pro-se pro-se-litigation pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing standing-to-file | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) unconstitutionally deprives individuals of the right to litigate their personal liberty interests pro se |
| 19-7303 | Michael W. Smith v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-01-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining sexually-violent-person sixth-amendment | Does the Petitioner have a legal right to be admonished about indefinite involuntary civil commitment before accepting a plea agreement? |
| 19-7297 | Christopher J. Burton v. Harold W. Clarke, Director, Virginia Department of Corrections | Virginia | 2020-01-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment collateral-consequences criminal-justice criminal-procedure deportation due-process professional-assistance sexually-violent-predator strickland-v-washington voluntary-plea | Whether civil commitment proceedings are sufficiently similar to deportation proceedings such that the distinction between collateral and direct conse… |
| 19-7137 | Patrick Randell McIntosh v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2020-01-02 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-detention civil-commitment civil-rights commitment confinement constitutional-rights dangerousness due-process mental-health personality-disorder procedural-safeguards public-safety standing | Whether the inmate's narcissistic personality disorder and alleged dangerousness due to exogenous factors justify his continued confinement since Nove… |
| 19-6892 | John R. Van Orden v. Mark Stringer, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-12-10 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | circuit-court-split civil-commitment due-process fundamental-rights liberty-interest mental-health-confinement sexually-violent-predator shocks-the-conscience substantive-due-process | What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis? |
| 19-723 | Oliver Lee White v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct | Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed |
| 19-6368 | Richard Kalinowski v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process liberty liberty-interest pre-trial-detention speedy-trial standard-of-review | Does the right to a speedy trial in a civil commitment case require the Courts to apply a more strict standard of review due to the loss of liberty in… |
| 19-6173 | In Re Karl David Kretser, Jr. | 2019-10-04 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment competent-tribunal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-incompetence mental-illness tanner-v-united-states trial-judge wernicke-korsakoff-syndrome | Can a conviction stand when the trial judge was civilly committed and later determined to be suffering from Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome? | |
| 19-5677 | In Re Alonzo May | 2019-08-22 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power | Whether the State of Texas lawfully overrode the petitioner's final judgment and order of commitment, in violation of the Ex Post Facto Clause, Double… | |
| 18-9613 | Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment | Whether the petitioner was denied his due process right to present a complete defense during his civil commitment trial when the trial court precluded… |
| 18-9160 | Radomysl Twardowski v. Bismarck Police Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process jury-trial mental-health right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion mental-health psychological-treatment right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations | Whether the civil commitment of a person based solely on a mental health evaluation violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 18-8686 | Juan Francisco Vega v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-03 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the criminal judgments and convictions that are being utilized for involuntary civil commitment are barred by the Florida civil action statute… |
| 18-8317 | Robert Gering v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury | Whether the constitutional right to a trial by jury in a civil commitment case can be circumvented by a Florida rule of civil procedure nullifying the… |
| 18-7994 | Daniel H. King v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is 'in the cust… |
| 18-7742 | Luis A. Serna v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process foucha-v-louisiana future-dangerous-behavior heck-doctrine kingsley-v-hendrickson presumption-of-innocence section-1983 speculation state-speculation | Is the 'Petitioner' entitled to [a] defense of [the] 'presumption of innocence' upon a State's assertion of 'future dangerous behavior' via pure 'spec… |
| 18-7689 | Frank James v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations | Whether the criminal judgments and convictions that are being utilized for involuntary civil commitment are barred by the Florida civil action statute… |
| 18-7519 | Daltonia Duncan v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-01-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4246 civil-commitment civil-procedure due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-statute judicial-procedure mental-health mental-health-law state-custody statutory-interpretation united-states-code | Whether a district court may civilly commit a person under 18 U.S.C. § 4246 without first determining whether suitable arrangements for state custody … |
| 18-7375 | Wayne Nicolaison v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-violation due-process foucha-standard foucha-v-louisiana indefinite-commitment presumption-of-innocence section-1983 | Is the 'Petitioner' entitled to [a] defense of [the] 'presumption of innocence' upon a State's assertion of 'future dangerous behavior' by purely mere… |
| 18-7276 | Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight | May a for-profit corporation enact a system of retribution-and-deterrence by way of policy, in desecration of the dicta of Kansas-v-Hendricks, 521-U.S… |
| 18-7220 | Pashtoon Farooqi v. California | California | 2019-01-03 | Denied | IFP | bill-of-attainder civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-challenge due-process hearsay-evidence jury-instruction mental-disorder sexually-violent-predator vagueness | Does the California version of its Sexually Violent Predators Act (SVPA) violate the precedents of this Court, and is it therefore unconstitutional? |
| 18-6751 | Patrick McIntosh v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2018-11-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4243 civil-commitment criminal-law due-process mental-disease mental-disease-or-defect mental-health-law personality-disorder statutory-interpretation | Does a severe personality disorder constitute a mental disease or defect under 18 U.S.C. § 4243(c)(d) civil commitment provision? |
| 18-6374 | William Carl Welsh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal | Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when… |
| 18-6194 | James Dow Vandivere v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absurd-results civil-action civil-commitment civil-procedure congressional-act due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-statute procedural-law statute-of-limitations united-states | Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations applies to civil commitment proceedings under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 |
| 18-5668 | Thomas Blackledge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act civil-commitment civil-rights due-process recidivism sexually-dangerous-persons volitional-control | Whether the Adam Walsh Act's civil commitment provisions violate due process by allowing commitment based solely on an individual's private fantasies … |
| 18-5636 | Edgar Searcy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for a civil action arising under an Act of Congress' applies to civil commitment proc… |
| 18-5370 | Thomas Juresic v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions | Does a civil commitment court have the constitutional authority to usurp custody and personal jurisdiction over a person prior to the expiration of th… |
| 18-5029 | Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas | Texas | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt | Are directed verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment? |