| 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… |
| 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 |
| 20-7775 |
Fita E. Spann v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2021-04-15 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
18-usc-4246 18-usc-4247 bodily-injury conditional-release due-process federal-mental-health-statutes mental-health-statutes psychiatric-examination risk-assessment substantial-risk |
Whether Due Process and the federal mental health statutes require a new mental examination prior to revocation of conditional release |
| 20-6838 |
Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-01-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing |
Whether a lower federal court loses jurisdiction over a habeas corpus petition upon release of the civil detention petitioner |
| 20-5694 |
Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California |
California |
2020-09-14 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-detention civil-rights conditional-release constitutional-rights due-process insanity-acquittee insanity-acquittees involuntary-civil-detention involuntary-confinement recommitment |
Due process protections for involuntarily civilly detained insanity acquittees |