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Supreme Court Upholds Kansas Civil Commitment Law

Loaded on Aug. 15, 1997 by Dan Pens published in Prison Legal News August, 1997, page 1
Filed under: Mental Health, Civil Commitment. Location: Kansas.
In a chilling 5-4 ruling, the U.S. supreme court reversed a Kansas supreme court which invalidated the Kansas Sexually Violent Predator Act after holding that the Act ("civil commitment" of "sexually violent predators" who suffer from a "mental abnormality" or 'personality disorder") violates substantive due process by thinly disguising a ...

 

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