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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
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| 25-6632 | Alveto Rivera v. Mark Gray | Eighth Circuit | 2026-01-21 | Pending | IFP | attorney-misconduct civil-commitment civil-rights legal-malpractice section-1983 state-action | Whether the pla intiff 'is allow to sue his formal attorney under the color of state law, and to where the violation occurred while the defendant acte… |
| 25-833 | Duane Letroy Berry v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2026-01-14 | Pending | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-commitment congressional-power constitutional-limits criminal-procedure due-process federal-custody | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4246(a) exceeds the constitutional limits of Congress's powers insofar as it permits the federal government to civilly commit a pe… |
| 25-6419 | Tonnie Nealy v. Donald Sawyer, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-12-23 | Pending | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment constitutional-rights deliberate-indifference institutional-liability prisoner-safety professional-judgment | (1) Whether the 11th circuit failed to comply with this court's binding ruling in FARMER V. BRENNAN, 511 U.S. 825 (1994) in its finial opinion, since … |
| 25-6201 | Frank Paul Ferrara v. Virginia, et al. | Fourth Circuit | 2025-11-21 | Denied | IFP | attorney-general civil-commitment constitutional-law discretionary-action equal-protection fourteenth-amendment | Question No. 1: Whether the Commonwealth of Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection of the laws when the Attorney G… |
| 25-5292 | John Charles Volungus v. United States | First Circuit | 2025-08-06 | Denied | IFP | adam-walsh-act civil-commitment conditional-release district-court-authority medical-treatment statutory-interpretation | 1. Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4248(e) and other federal mental health statutes, which authorize the conditional release of a civilly committed persons under … |
| 25-5193 | Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2025-07-24 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment due-process facial-challenge legislative-intent punitive-intent rule-59-motion | 1. If Texas declares. .. that the Act which they confined Petitioner under (after he completed his prison sentence) is "civil," but it is actually "c… |
| 24-7259 | In Re Kenja Omari Deangelo Carmichael | 2025-05-21 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment constitutional-violation cruel-unusual-punishment due-process mental-health-examination prisoner-rights | 1.Is it unconstitutional for a prisoner or detainee to recieve creel unsual punishment by staff 24 hours aday everyday being tortured and harrassed ,b… | |
| 24-6861 | Haitham Yousef Alhindi v. United States | Eleventh Circuit | 2025-03-26 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment competency-to-stand-trial detention-order inter-circuit-conflict mootness | Did the Eleventh Circuit err and create an inter-circuit conflict by dismissing Mr. Alhindi's appeal as moot where, pursuant to United States v. Carri… |
| 24-500 | Darrin S. Rick v. Jodi Harpstead, Commissioner, Minnesota Department of Human Services | Eighth Circuit | 2024-11-01 | Denied | Response Waived | actual-innocence civil-commitment habeas-corpus indefinite-confinement miscarriage-of-justice procedural-bar | Whether the actual innocence/miscarriage of justice exception which allows federal courts to consider a habeas corpus petition otherwise precluded by … |
| 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… |
| 23A1114 | Samuel San Miguel v. Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2024-06-14 | Presumed Complete | circuit-split civil-commitment due-process medical-care pro-se-litigation standard-of-review | Question not identified. | |
| 23-1273 | Catherine Brennan v. Cass County Health, Human and Veteran Services, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2024-06-05 | Denied | Response Waived | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process heck-precedent heck-v-humphrey psychotropic-drugs section-1983 willful-indifference | 1. Is Heck v. Humphrey precedent to require persons subject to civil commitment proceedings not related to a criminal proceeding to vacate the commitm… |
| 23-7418 | James Dow Vandivere v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-08 | Denied | IFP | adam-walsh-act burden-of-proof civil-commitment due-process foucha-v-louisiana judicial-procedure kansas-v-hendricks liberty-interest | Whether in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in United States v. Comstock, 560 U.S. 126 (2010) authorizing civil commitments pursuant to the Ad… |
| 23A991 | Gerald Wayne Timms v. Merrick B. Garland, Attorney General | Fourth Circuit | 2024-05-07 | Presumed Complete | appellate-litigation civil-commitment court-assigned-counsel due-process student-representation supreme-court-practice | Question not identified. | |
| 23-7290 | Theodore Macon Carrington, Jr. v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2024-04-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 4th-amendment 4th-circuit-review attorney-general attorney-general-custody civil-commitment criminal-commitment custody due-process mental-health procedural-objection statutory-interpretation | I. Whether the district court properly "committ[ed] [Appellant] to the custody and care of the Attorney General " pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 4246, given … |
| 23-7189 | A. R. P. v. Florida | Florida | 2024-04-10 | Denied | IFP | baker-act civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equal-access-to-courts habeas-corpus judicial-procedure mandamus representation | 1. Did Florida 's Supreme Court err in denying the application for a writ of habeas corpus and/or mandamus without first dealing with the constituti… |
| 23-7151 | Carolyn Sioux Green v. Washington Department of Social and Health Services, et al. | Washington | 2024-04-05 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | chemical-lobotomy civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process equitable-tolling federal-jurisdiction incarceration legal-representation statute-of-limitations | 1. Should the doctrine of equitable tolling be applied to a case of which the central concern is a violation of the constitutional right to due proces… |
| 23-7048 | Justin L. Dalcollo v. Anthony Wills, et al. | Seventh Circuit | 2024-03-21 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment appellate-jurisdiction civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-rights due-process federal-procedure judicial-review legal-standing mental-health standing | Question not identified. |
| 23-5129 | Earl Lionell Ward v. Ramsey County, Minnesota | Minnesota | 2023-07-18 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process fourteenth-amendment fundamental-rights liberty-interest liberty-interests sex-offender statutory-criteria | The question presented is whether Minnesota's indefinite sex offender civil commitment scheme violates Petitioner's Fourteenth Amendment's due process… |
| 22-7844 | Frank James v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2023-06-22 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-claim constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus procedural-delay state-created-right state-created-rights | Whether a state prisoner's claim of delay in the commencement of a civil commitment proceedings implicates the constitutional right to due process, su… |
| 22-7067 | Thomas Powers v. Greg Donathan | Seventh Circuit | 2023-03-23 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process illinois-sexual-violent-persons-act involuntary-detention sixth-amendment speedy-trial | WHETHER THE PETITIONER IS ENTITLED TO RELEASE FROM INVOLUNITARY DETENTION FROM THE CARE,CUSTODY AND TREATMENT OF THE ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SE… |
| 22-6958 | Thomas Powers v. David Doll, et al. | Illinois | 2023-03-08 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-detainee civil-rights due-process illinois-supreme-court legal-malpractice sexual-violent-person-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial | WHETHER PETITIONER THOMAS POWERS WHO HAS BEEN PENDING A CIVIL DETAINEE SINCE JUNE 26,2012 PENDING A CIVIL COMMITMENT HEARING IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN … |
| 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 in sanity acquittees … |
| 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 | 1. Does an individual who has been diagnosed with a state created psychological disorder have a right to treatment equal to those who the medical comm… |
| 22-5631 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Marsha McLane, Director, Texas Civil Commitment Office, et al. | Fifth Circuit | 2022-09-20 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process mental-health personal-liberty right-to-travel sanctuary state-sovereignty | Petitioner Lonnie Kade Welsh is Civilly Committed as a Sexually Violent Predator in the State of Texas. Twenty states follow the SVP Act model to civi… |
| 22-5521 | Jesus Jesse Gonzalez v. Texas | Texas | 2022-09-08 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment criminal-law dangerousness due-process intentional-offense mens-rea mental-capacity mental-health sexual-predator texas-law | Can a person be unable to control his dangerousness, thus rendering him eligible for civil commitment as a sexual predator, but simultaneously be able… |
| 22-5126 | Davis Lamar Brooks v. United States | Fifth Circuit | 2022-07-19 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | burden-of-proof civil-commitment conditional-release due-process fifth-circuit haldol-injection involuntary-medication involuntary-treatment mental-health preponderance-of-evidence standard-of-review | 1) Whether the Fifth Circuit erred by affirming the district court's denial of Mr. Brooks' Motion for Unconditional Release. 2) Whether the Fifth Cir… |
| 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 | I. Whether The Current Version of the California SVP Law Violates the Due Process Clause under the Fourteenth Amendment because it does not offer a Me… |
| 21-5276 | William H. Bransford v. Dan Winkelski, Warden | Seventh Circuit | 2021-08-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | aedpa-standard appellate-counsel civil-commitment dna-evidence due-process habeas-corpus indigent-defendant ineffective-assistance ineffective-assistance-of-counsel plea-bargaining | 1. Should pre-A-EDP-A standard of a 2.8 4-.§2254 petition apply when an indigent defendant has been U.S.C. constructively abandoned by appointed appel… |
| 21-5034 | K. E. K. v. Waupaca County, Wisconsin | Wisconsin | 2021-07-07 | Denied | Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment constitutional-rights due-process government-authority involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention patient-dangerousness recent-acts | Whether a statute authorizing the government to extend an involuntary civil commitment without evidence of any recent acts indicating that the patient… |
| 20-7942 | Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2021-05-05 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights constitutional-rights detention due-process florida-law free-speech habeas-corpus standing takings | How Can FLORIDA STATUTE 394.910 (The Involuntary Civil Commitment of Sexually Violent Predators Act) (i.e. hereinafter The Act) be considered "constit… |
| 20-7642 | Daniel Fetzer v. Shevaun Harris, Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families, et al. | Eleventh Circuit | 2021-04-01 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights due-process kansas-v-hendricks liberty liberty-interest mental-abnormality mental-health sexual-violence substantive-due-process | Doesn't The State Of Florida Have to Obey Your United States Supreme Courts Law In Kansas VHendricks 117S.C.T. 2072 (U.S. Kan . 1997) On Page 2080 . Y… |
| 20-7619 | Thomas Powers v. Greg Scott | Seventh Circuit | 2021-03-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-delay due-process fourteenth-amendment habeas-corpus mental-health sexual-offender sexual-violent-persons-act sixth-amendment speedy-trial | A. WHETHER THE THE COURTS SHOULD HAVE CONDUCTED A UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT ANALYSIS UNDER MBARKER VS WINGO"407 US 532,92 SCt.2182 ON THE "EIGHT YEA… |
| 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… |
| 20-5846 | Anthony C. Green v. Kelly Lake, Sheriff, Carlton County, Minnesota, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2020-10-01 | Denied | Response WaivedRelisted (2)IFP | 8th-circuit civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-standard due-process excessive-force fourteenth-amendment objective-reasonableness qualified-immunity | The question presented is whether the 8th Circuits ' decision is contrary to this Court 's decision in Kingsley. |
| 20-5542 | Devin M. Kugler v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-09-01 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-limitation due-process juvenile-adjudication life-sentence miller-v-alabama sentencing-precedent sexually-violent-person | Whether this Court's decision in Miller v. Alabama, 567 U.S. 460 (2012), which prohibits life sentences for juveniles, prevents a court from civilly c… |
| 20-5471 | Darryl C. Daniels v. Florida | Florida | 2020-08-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-detention liberty liberty-interest sexual-predator state-power | Question not identified. |
| 20-5165 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-conviction criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity sanity | 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 20-5164 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment criminal-procedure double-jeopardy due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity | 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 20-5163 | Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Texas | Texas | 2020-07-24 | Denied | IFP | actual-innocence civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fourteenth-amendment insanity-defense mens-rea mental-capacity | 1. Would the State of Texas cause a fundamental miscarriage of justice violating the United States Fourteenth Amendment by refusing to overturn the cr… |
| 19-8550 | Wayne Carl Nicolaison v. Minnesota | Minnesota | 2020-05-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment due-process equal-protection Foucha-v-Louisiana liberty mental-illness | THE CASE UNDERLYING THIS PETITION IS AN ACTION TO ENFORCE CASE LAW, THAT REQUIRES DISCHARGE OF CIVIL COMMITMENT, WHEN THE ORIGINAL MENTAL ILLNESS IS I… |
| 19-8292 | Russell Tinsley v. Sherry Yates, Administrator, Adult Diagnostic and Treatment Center, et al. | Third Circuit | 2020-04-17 | Denied | IFP | certificate-of-appealability civil-commitment constitutional-law constitutional-provisions due-process fauntleroy-doctrine full-faith-and-credit jurisdiction | WHEATHER THE NEW JERSEY CIVIL COMMITMENT OF MR. TINSLEY WAS A VIOLATION OF THE FAUNTLEROY DOCTRINE; AND/OR JURISDICTION OF THE FULL FAITH AND CREDIT C… |
| 19-7428 | Timothy O'Laughlin v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2020-01-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights civil-rights-deprivation due-process personal-liberty pro-se pro-se-litigation pro-se-petition sixth-amendment standing standing-to-file | Whether 18 U.S.C. § 4247(h) unconstitutionally and illegally deprives individuals of the right to litigate their personal liberty interests pro se, un… |
| 19-7303 | Michael W. Smith v. Illinois | Illinois | 2020-01-16 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process effective-assistance-of-counsel ineffective-assistance-of-counsel mental-competency plea-agreement plea-bargaining sexually-violent-person sixth-amendment | Does the Petitioner have a Legal right by the U.S. Constitution and the Illinois Constitution, State law to be admonished about indefinite involuntary… |
| 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 | 1) IN THIS CASE OF FIRST IMPRESSION, I ASK THIS COURT TO FINALLY DECIDE WHETHER THE NATURE OF CIVIL COMMITMENT, ITS PROCEDURAL SIMILARITY TO DEPORTATI… |
| 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 | Question not identified. |
| 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 | I. What is the proper analysis to review a substantive due process claim? Is it the conjunctive or disjunctive analysis? II. Whether or not the Eight… |
| 19-723 | Oliver Lee White v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-12-09 | Denied | Relisted (2) | civil-commitment criminal-procedure due-process fifth-amendment incompetence incompetency liberty-interest sexually-dangerous sexually-violent-conduct | Whether the Fifth Amendment's Due Process Clause forbids the civil-commitment trial of an incompetent person whose prior conduct is disputed. |
| 19-6368 | Richard Kalinowski v. Illinois | Illinois | 2019-10-23 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-review due-process liberty liberty-interest pre-trial-detention speedy-trial standard-of-review | I. Does the right to a speedy trial in a civil commitment case, require the Courts to apply a more strict standard of review, due to the loss of liber… |
| 19-6173 | In Re Karl David Kretser, Jr. | 2019-10-04 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment competent-tribunal constitutional-rights due-process judicial-incompetence mental-illness tanner-v-united-states trial-judge wernicke-korsakoff-syndrome | Can a conviction stand when at the time of trial and sentencing the trial judge was civilly committed and later determined to be suffering from Wernic… | |
| 19-5677 | In Re Alonzo May | 2019-08-22 | Denied | IFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights double-jeopardy due-process ex-post-facto fourteenth-amendment liberty-interest sovereign-power | 1. By what authority did you base your actions on when having the Petitioner confined at Texas Civil Commitment Center? 2. What evidence was relied u… | |
| 18-9613 | Matthew L. Smeltzer v. Audrey King | Ninth Circuit | 2019-06-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment complete-defense due-process erroneous-standard expert-testimony legal-standard section-2254 volitional-impairment | Whether Petitioner's due process right to present a complete defense in his civil commitment trial was violated when the state court prevented him fro… |
| 18-9160 | Radomysl Twardowski v. Bismarck Police Department, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2019-05-06 | Denied | IFP | civil-rights due-process jury-trial mental-health right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-provisions criminal-sentencing defendant-rights due-process judicial-discretion mental-health psychological-treatment right-to-counsel statute-of-limitations | 1. SHOULD THERE BE A STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON GRAVE MORAL PSYCHOLOGICAL AND PHYSICAL PERSONAL INJURIES ACTIONS WHICH CONTRIBUTE SIGNIFICANTLY TO WRON… |
| 18-8686 | Juan Francisco Vega v. Florida | Florida | 2019-04-03 | Dismissed | IFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations | THE CRIMINAL JUDGMENTS AND CONVICTIONS THAT ARE BEING UTILIZED FOR INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT ARE OVER 20 YEARS OLD AND THEREFORE BARRED BY THE FLOR… |
| 18-8317 | Robert Gering v. Florida | Florida | 2019-03-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 14th-amendment civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-right due-process florida-constitution florida-procedure fourteenth-amendment jury-trial liberty-interest trial-by-jury | THE CONTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN A CIVIL COMMITMENT CASE CANNOT BE CIRCUMVENTED BY A FLORIDA RULE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE NULLIFYING THE INVIO… |
| 18-7994 | Daniel H. King v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2019-02-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | bureau-of-prisons civil-commitment civil-rights criminal-law criminal-procedure custody-transfer district-of-columbia due-process federal-jurisdiction federal-law habeas-corpus sentencing statutory-interpretation | Whether someone serving a sentence imposed by the District of Columbia whose physical custody was transferred to the Bureau of Prisons is "in the cust… |
| 18-7742 | Luis A. Serna v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2019-02-04 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights due-process foucha-v-louisiana future-dangerous-behavior heck-doctrine kingsley-v-hendrickson presumption-of-innocence section-1983 speculation state-speculation | Is the "Petitioner" entitled to [a] defense of [the] "presumption of innocence" upon a State's assertion of "future dangerous behavior" via pure "spec… |
| 18-7689 | Frank James v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-01-31 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-procedure constitutional-provisions criminal-convictions criminal-judgments due-process involuntary-commitment involuntary-proceedings standing statute-of-limitations | THE CRIMINAL JUDGMENTS AND CONVICTIONS THAT ARE BEING UTILIZED FOR INVOLUNTARY CIVIL COMMITMENT ARE OVER 20 YEARS OLD AND THEREFORE BARRED BY THE FLOR… |
| 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 … |
| 18-7375 | Wayne Nicolaison v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota | Eighth Circuit | 2019-01-11 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights clear-and-convincing-evidence constitutional-violation due-process foucha-standard foucha-v-louisiana indefinite-commitment presumption-of-innocence section-1983 | Is the "Petitioner" entitled to [a] defense of [the] "presumption of innocence" upon a State's assertion of "future dangerous behavior" by purely mere… |
| 18-7276 | Juan Francisco Vega, et al. v. Rebecca Kapusta, Interim Secretary, Florida Department of Children and Families | Florida | 2019-01-07 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | administrative-law civil-commitment civil-procedure civil-rights deterrence due-process for-profit-corporation Kansas-v-Hendricks-521-US-346-1997 retribution retribution-and-deterrence statutory-interpretation statutory-oversight | MAY A FOR PROFIT CORPORATION ENACT A SYSTEM OF RETRIBUTION AND DETERRENCE BY WAY OF POLICY, IN DESECRATION OF THE DICTA OF KANSAS V. HENDRICKS, 521 U.… |
| 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? … |
| 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? |
| 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… |
| 18-6194 | James Dow Vandivere v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-10-03 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | absurd-results civil-action civil-commitment civil-procedure congressional-act due-process federal-civil-procedure federal-statute procedural-law statute-of-limitations united-states | 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… |
| 18-5668 | Thomas Blackledge v. United States | Fourth Circuit | 2018-08-20 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | adam-walsh-act civil-commitment civil-rights due-process recidivism sexually-dangerous-persons volitional-control | I. Whether the Fourth Circuit erred in affirming the civil commitment of petitioner under the Adam Walsh Act where the evidence does not establish by … |
| 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… |
| 18-5370 | Thomas Juresic v. Illinois | Illinois | 2018-07-26 | Denied | IFP | civil-commitment custody due-process equal-protection liberty-interests null-and-void personal-jurisdiction sentencing-court statutory-provisions | Does a Department of Corrections (DOC) or sentencing court retain constitutional custody and personal jurisdiction over a person until the expiration … |
| 18-5029 | Stephen Patrick Black v. Texas | Texas | 2018-06-28 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-commitment civil-rights constitutional-rights directed-verdict directed-verdicts due-process fundamental-error jury-trial liberty reasonable-doubt | Are Directed Verdicts constitutional in civil trials relating to indefinite civil commitment? Directed verdicts are disallowed in criminal trials and … |