mental-health-detention
6 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 25-623 | Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-12-02 | Pending | community-caretaking constitutional-seizure fourth-amendment law-enforcement mental-health-detention qualified-immunity | Under the 4th Amendment, a warrantless emergency mental health detention constitutes a physical seizure. Police often misconstrue ordinary street enco… | |
| 25A184 | Ronald Smith v. Bexar County, Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-08-14 | Presumed Complete | fourth-amendment mental-health-detention probable-cause seizure traffic-stop warrantless-search | Whether law enforcement may conduct a warrantless emergency mental health detention during a traffic stop based solely on subjective observations of '… | |
| 22-5721 | Sealed Appellant v. United States | First Circuit | 2022-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-4245 constitutional-rights due-process government-action involuntary-transfer liberty-interest mental-health mental-health-detention statutory-procedure vitek-v-jones | Whether the government violated petitioner's constitutional due process rights by involuntarily transferring him to, and holding him in, a secure ment… |
| 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 … |
| 20-6477 | Hamid Reza Ardaneh v. Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 2020-11-30 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | civil-rights constitutional-rights discrimination due-process equal-protection judicial-bias jurisdiction mental-health-detention national-origin nationality | If the petitioner cannot enforce his equality of rights in lower state courts based on discrimination toward his nationality of being Iranian, then wh… |
| 18-5425 | Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. | New York | 2018-08-02 | Denied | Relisted (2)IFP | access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing | Whether the New Mexico state bail law as applied ($30.42) to a bill of rights violation, purposely keeping a recluse out of the court process in viola… |