conditional-release
5 cases — ← All topics
| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 … |
| 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… |
| 20-7775 | Fita E. Spann v. United States | Eighth Circuit | 2021-04-15 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | 18-usc-4246 18-usc-4247 bodily-injury conditional-release due-process federal-mental-health-statutes mental-health-statutes psychiatric-examination risk-assessment substantial-risk | WHETHER DUE PROCESS AND THE FEDERAL MENTAL HEALTH STATUTES 18 U.S.C. § 4246 AND § 4247 REQUIRE A NEW MENTAL EXAMINATION, PRIOR TO THE REVOCATION OF A … |
| 20-6838 | Jason Sinagwana Nsinano, aka Jason Nsinano v. Robert M. Wilkinson, Acting Attorney General | Ninth Circuit | 2021-01-12 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-detention civil-procedure civil-rights conditional-release due-process habeas-corpus jurisdictional-mootness mootness pleading-standards pro-se-litigant standing | A) Whether a lower federal court loses its jurisdiction over a petition for writ of habeas corpus upon release of the civil detention petitioner, al… |
| 20-5694 | Marc Anthony Lowell Endsley v. California | California | 2020-09-14 | Denied | Response WaivedIFP | civil-detention civil-rights conditional-release constitutional-rights due-process insanity-acquittee insanity-acquittees involuntary-civil-detention involuntary-confinement recommitment | 1. Whether persons involuntarily civilly detained as insanity acquittees are entitled to the due process protections constitutionally required for all… |