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Eighth Circuit Reverses Finding of Due Process Violations in Minnesota Civil Commitment Program
Loaded on Nov. 7, 2017
by Matthew Clarke
published in Prison Legal News
November, 2017, page 58
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Sex Offenders (Discrimination),
Sex Offender Treatment,
Civil Commitment.
Location:
Minnesota.
by Matt Clarke
On January 3, 2017, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion that reversed a district court’s finding of substantive due process violations in a civil rights complaint brought by civilly committed sex offenders in Minnesota.
In the class-action suit, sex offenders who had been ...
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