United States v. Howard Perry, Glen Hagen, James Geran, Kevin Dorr. United States of America v. Howard Perry and Gary Moore

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the Seventh Amendment guarantee of jury trial in civil cases did not apply because “a proceeding leading to civil preventive detention, whatever else it is, plainly is not a suit at common law”
• explaining that under 18 U.S.C. § 3142 the district court must make a \dangerousness determination\ involving \a prediction of the detainee's likely future behavior\
• \[A] demonstration of dangerousness justifies deprivation of liberty by civil commitment without offending the substantive due process limitation upon government.\
• “Congress ... cannot sanction for the general welfare.... Congress may concern itself with the ‘safety of the community’ only to the extent that other specific grants of power so permit.”
• 18 U.S.C. § 3142(f), which “explicitly permits use of evidence [in pre-trial detention hearings] that would not be permissible in a criminal trial”
• “[A] demonstration of dangerousness justifies deprivation of liberty by civil commitment without offending the substantive due process of limitation upon government.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).