Civil Rights
Block on Trump's Asylum Ban Upheld by Supreme Court
In a 42 U.S.C. section 1983 action concerning the conditions of plaintiff's involuntary confinement at a state hospital, dismissal of the complaint is affirmed where individuals who are civilly committed are not "prisoners" within the meaning of the Prisoner Litigation Reform Act.
Read Merryfield v. Jordan, No. 09-3002
Appellate Information
Filed October 19, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge Baldock
Counsel
For Appellant:
Dustin J. Merryfield, pro se
For Appellees:
Danny J. Baumgartner, Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, Topeka, KS
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