mental-health-law
4 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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… |
| 21-101 | Kevin Scott Karsjens, et al., Individually and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated v. Tony Lourey, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2021-07-26 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-rights constitutional-law constitutional-rights due-process eighth-circuit-precedent involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-law treatment-progression treatment-rights | Whether an involuntarily committed individual whose continued commitment depends on treatment progression has a constitutional right to treatment? |
| 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 … |
| 18-6751 | 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? |