18-usc-4248
3 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24-5090 | Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2024-07-16 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4248 attorney-general civil-commitment due-process fifth-amendment necessary-and-proper-clause procedural-due-process procedural-rights substantive-due-process | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248, consistent with both substantive and procedural due process, can be read to permit a civil commitment order to remain in eff… |
| 18-6374 | William Carl Welsh v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-19 | Denied | Amici (1)Relisted (2)IFP | 18-usc-4248 actual-innocence civil-commitment federal-prison jurisdiction jurisdictional jurisdictional-requirement rule-60(b)(5) rule-60b5 section-4248 summary-reversal | Whether a district court may deny relief from a civil-commitment judgment under 18 U.S.C. § 4248 and keep a person in federal prison indefinitely when… |
| 18-5636 | Edgar Searcy v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-17 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4248 28-usc-1658 circuit-split civil-action civil-commitment federal-civil-procedure federal-procedure statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation | Whether the 28 U.S.C. § 1658(a) four-year statute of limitations for "a civil action arising under an Act of Congress" applies to civil commitment pro… |