| 22-6831 |
Will Lee Carter v. Virginia |
Virginia |
2023-02-22 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection fifth-amendment fourteenth-amendment freedom-of-religion self-incrimination sexually-violent-predator substantive-due-process |
Is Virginia's Sexually Violent Predator Law Unconstitutional? |
| 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… |
| 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 |
| 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… |
| 20-5624 |
Juan Francisco Vega v. Chad Poppell, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families |
Eleventh Circuit |
2020-09-09 |
Dismissed |
IFP |
§2254-petition certificate-of-appealability circuit-court-discretion extraordinary-circumstances false-imprisonment habeas-corpus sexually-violent-predator successive-petitions |
whether-jurists-could-debate-abuse-of-discretion |
| 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… |
| 19-6892 |
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? |
| 19-5858 |
Lamarr T. Crittenden v. Keith Butts, Warden |
Seventh Circuit |
2019-09-06 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
certificate-of-appealability constitutional-rights constitutional-violation due-process ex-post-facto ineffective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-counsel retroactive-application sexual-violent-predator sexually-violent-predator |
Did the Seventh Circuit fail to address an ex post facto violation and failure to issue a Certificate of Appealability? |
| 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? |