Michael Hunter v. Kelly Mueske

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How courts have described this case

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• indicating that the Fourteenth Amendment due process rights of the involuntarily civilly committed are at least as extensive as the Eighth Amendment rights of the criminally institutionalized
• “no cases hold that a government official’s violation of facility or department policy, without more, constitutes a constitutional violation.”
• “A plaintiff must establish more than broad legal truisms; he or she must demonstrate that the law fixed the contours of the right so clearly that a reasonable official would have understood his acts were unlawful.”

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