confinement
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-7073 | I. M. v. Illinois | Illinois | 2025-04-24 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | confinement constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus mental-health-code probable-cause | Whether the Illinois mental health code violates constitutional due process rights through arbitrary confinement without probable cause hearings and p… |
| 24-6040 | Graham L. Stowe v. Gregory Van Rybroek, Director, Mendota Mental Health Institute | Seventh Circuit | 2024-11-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confinement due-process foucha-v-louisiana mental-institution ngi-acquittee not-mentally-ill | Whether the Wisconsin court's decision is contrary to and an unreasonable application of Foucha v. Louisiana because it permits the state to confine N… |
| 24-19 | James LeBlanc v. Brian McNeal | Fifth Circuit | 2024-07-09 | Denied | Amici (2)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | 42-usc-1983 civil-rights confinement damages due-process habeas-corpus preiser-v-rodriguez release-date state-prisoner wilkinson-v-dotson | Whether a state prisoner alleging unlawful confinement beyond his proper release date may sue for damages under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 |
| 23-7184 | Daniel Paul Sansone v. United States | First Circuit | 2024-04-09 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | confinement confinement-period criminal-procedure criminal-sentencing detention-calculation juvenile-commitment legal-interpretation sentencing-guidelines statutory-interpretation u.s.-sentencing-guidelines | Whether an indeterminate juvenile commitment is properly counted as a period of confinement of at least sixty days under the U.S. Sentencing Guideline… |
| 23-6933 | Huy Trong Tran v. Tammy L. Campbell, Warden | Ninth Circuit | 2024-03-08 | Denied | IFP | civil-liberties civil-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus judicial-review procedural-ruling standing | Is the petitioner's claim outside the core of habeas corpus when it challenges the invalidity of confinement or particulars affecting duration which a… |
| 23-6603 | Johnnie Demond Jackson v. Kevin R. Sproul, Sheriff, Dougherty County, Georgia, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2024-01-29 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-procedure civil-rights confinement constitutional-law due-process federal-jurisdiction interference jurisdiction retaliation summary-judgment | Whether the petitioner's constitutional rights were violated by the defendants' actions, which allegedly caused him more than 30 minutes of delay in r… |
| 21-7653 | Nathan Christopher Braun v. Justin DeMars, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2022-04-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appeal-preparation civil-rights confinement document-access due-process eleventh-circuit legal-access legal-materials medical-care prison-litigation retaliation transfer | Did the retaliatory transfer from one facility to another violate the petitioner's due process rights? |
| 21-957 | Marci M. Webber v. Illinois | Illinois | 2021-12-30 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights confinement due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment mental-health mental-health-detention ngri not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity | Whether a State's indefinite confinement of an NGRI acquittee, who is no longer psychotic, mentally ill, a danger to herself or others, or in need of … |
| 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… |
| 19-5487 | Martin Anthony Nino v. United States | Ninth Circuit | 2019-08-07 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | violate due-process|civil-rights|8th-amendment|ba without an individualized determination of necess bail-reform-act civil-rights competency-restoration confinement due-process eighth-amendment mental-health | Does automatic confinement for competency restoration, without an individualized determination of whether confinement is necessary, violate due-proces… |
| 18-8471 | Arthur Abraham v. California | California | 2019-03-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof confinement due-process insanity-acquittee mental-health personality-disorder personality-traits release state-confinement | Whether the Due Process Clause permits the State to continue to confine an insanity acquittee after he has recovered his sanity, as long as he has und… |