| 25-5968 |
Mark Wheeler v. United States |
Eleventh Circuit |
2025-10-28 |
Dismissed |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedIFP |
constitutional-rights criminal-procedure defendant-rights due-process involuntary-commitment mental-competency |
1. Does the mandatory commitment of a permanently incompetent defendant solely to assess the possibility of restoring competency violate due process? |
| 23-254 |
Sean Guilday v. Crisis Center at Crozer-Chester Medical Center, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2023-09-15 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
14th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process involuntary-commitment overrule psychiatric-examination slaughter-house-cases standing |
Is involuntary examination and involuntary commitment unconstitutional?
Is the Opinion for the Court in the Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 and fol… |
| 23-110 |
Anisha Ituah, by Her Guardian Angela McKay v. Austin State Hospital, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-08-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
americans-with-disabilities-act deliberate-indifference disparate-treatment due-process intellectual-disability intervention-rights involuntary-commitment notice-requirements prop-207 property-taking rehabilitation-act sexual-assault sexual-assault
23-1109" summary-judgment Whether the State's taking of common HOA lands vio |
May an intellectually disabled woman who complained of rape and sexual assault while involuntarily committed to a State Hospital, but was disbelieved … |
| 22A722 |
J.R. v. North Carolina |
North Carolina |
2023-02-07 |
Presumed Complete |
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burden-of-proof due-process-clause impartial-judge involuntary-commitment psychiatric-hospitalization trial-court-role |
Whether the Due Process Clause allows a trial court to combine the roles of prosecutor and judge in proceedings for the involuntary commitment of a pe… |
| 22-6496 |
Lonnie Kade Welsh v. Bryan Collier, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2023-01-09 |
Denied |
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… |
| 22-5502 |
In Re Artis Carroll |
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2022-09-02 |
Denied |
IFP |
14th-amendment 6th-amendment civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment legal-representation mental-health right-to-counsel |
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| 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… |
| 21-5246 |
Jeffrey Ferguson v. Cook County Correctional Facility/Cermak, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2021-07-29 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process emergency-care involuntary-commitment mental-health patient-rights |
1.) To what degree are standard psychiatry protocols to be followed in the event of an emergency commitment, transfer, discharge, and after-care plann… |
| 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? |
| 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… |
| 20-1287 |
Recovery Innovations, Inc., et al. v. Kenneth Rawson |
Ninth Circuit |
2021-03-16 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
42-usc-1983 civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process federal-law involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-services state-action state-action-doctrine |
Whether through the provision of mental health services, a private, non-profit hospital and private healthcare providers become state actors, subject … |
| 20-1025 |
Juan Francisco Vega v. Ashley Moody, Attorney General of Florida, et al. |
Eleventh Circuit |
2021-01-28 |
Denied |
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antiterrorism-act civil-rights constitutional-interpretation due-process florida-constitution florida-rules-of-court florida-statutes involuntary-commitment jury jury-verdict mental-abnormality |
1. WHETHER THE JURY'S VERDICT MUST BE REINSTATED BASED ON THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION, FLORIDA CONSTITUTION, STATUTES, AND FLORIDA RULES OF COURT?
… |
| 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. |
| 20-5166 |
J. J. H. v. Waukesha County, Wisconsin |
Wisconsin |
2020-07-24 |
Denied |
Amici (2)IFP |
civil-rights disability disability-accommodation due-process equal-protection hearing-rights involuntary-commitment legal-participation mental-health procedural-due-process procedural-fairness |
Whether a deaf person undergoing an involuntary commitment has a due process right to understand and participate in her hearing. |
| 19-7449 |
Jack Robert Smith v. Harry Oreol |
Ninth Circuit |
2020-01-29 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
8th-amendment civil-rights civil-rights-mental-health-commitment-due-process- constitutional-challenge due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment involuntary-hospitalization mental-health mental-health-commitment patient-rights supreme-court-review |
1. Is OLONOVOR V. DONALDSON, 422 US. [?] a Valid Legal Precedent for Due Process?
2. Is FOURIER V. LOUISIANA, 504 US. 71 77-1780 (1992) still Valid?
… |
| 19-864 |
Bradley Beers v. William P. Barr, Attorney General, et al. |
Third Circuit |
2020-01-10 |
GVR |
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civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights due-process government-restriction involuntary-commitment mental-health mootness second-amendment |
May the government permanently deny a mentally healthy, responsible, and law-abiding citizen of the United States the opportunity to recover his Secon… |
| 19-6361 |
Gregory Alan McKown v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-10-24 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2)IFP |
civil-rights commitment competency-evaluation criminal-procedure due-process involuntary-commitment liberty liberty-interest mathews-factors mathews-v-eldridge mental-health procedural-safeguards substantive-due-process |
I. Does mandatory, involuntary commitment of an incompetent defendant to the Bureau of Prisons for the sole purpose of evaluating whether he can attai… |
| 18-8686 |
Juan Francisco Vega v. Florida |
Florida |
2019-04-03 |
Denied |
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… |
| 18-7890 |
In Re Jose Joaquin Ramirez |
|
2019-02-13 |
Denied |
IFP |
civil-rights due-process equal-protection involuntary-commitment mental-health procedural-safeguards standing state-government |
Question not identified. |
| 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… |
| 18-7073 |
Todd James Luh v. Fulton State Hospital, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-12-18 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual-punishment disability-discrimination discovery due-process institutional-misconduct involuntary-commitment medical-abuse medical-records retaliation veterans-rights |
Does it serve justice to dismiss my claims when it is clear that testimony will be presented at trial that the defendants have assaulted me themselves… |
| 18-5425 |
Jose Joaquin Ramirez v. Joseph Aponte, et al. |
New York |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Relisted (2)IFP |
access-to-courts civil-liberties civil-rights constitutional-rights cruel-and-unusual cruel-and-unusual-punishment due-process equal-protection habeas-corpus involuntary-commitment mental-health mental-health-detention standing |
1. Is thr Nru Yok Stute Bil Lav as appli-d (530.40) a bill of Attuinder 272
2. Is denyin horing, not risprdhny to mations, prporly keeping accyse out… |