Christopher Evans Hubbart v. Robert Knapp Atascadero State Hospital

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• concluding that even if each California SVPA recommitment proceeding is a separate and distinct civil action, the court may still address a habeas petition challenging the first SVPA com- mitment in order to ensure that the claim is fully litigated
• noting that a two-year commitment under the SVP Act is too short a time for the validity of the commitment to be fully litigated
• noting that a two-year commitment under the SVP Act is too short a time for the validity of the commitment to be fully litigated
• federal habeas corpus relief is generally unavailable for alleged error in the interpretation or application of state law
• “Hubbart’s claims satisfy .the second ‘capable of repetition’ component of this analysis because he has already been subject to a second [state sex offender civil] commitment proceeding....”
• \Hubbart’s claims satisfy the second ‘capable of repetition’ component of this analysis because he has already been subject to a second [state sex offender civil] commitment proceeding . . . .\

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