Charles Peter Allison v. Donald N. Snyder, Jr., Mark S. Carich, and Michael L. Holmes

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing that the Constitution does not “permit a federal court to enforce state laws directly”
• “[p]laintiffs do not assert that their situation is worse in any material way than the situation in which ordinary pretrial detainees find themselves”
• civil committees may be placed in prisons and covered by the usual institutional rules (citing Bell v. Wolfish, 441 U.S. 520 (1979))
• “As the Court stated in McKune, many specialists think that self-accusatory features are essential to treatment (just as alcoholics must admit that they have a problem).”
• persons confined pursuant to the SDPA are civil detainees as well as pretrial detainees

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).