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NEW In re Commitment of Hughes
Appellate Court of Illinois · affirmed
Whether a hebephilia diagnosis is generally accepted under Frye and thus admissible in a sexually violent person commitment trial.
2026 IL App (1st) 240578
NEW Edward Williams v. Attorney General United States of America
3d Cir. · affirmed
Whether 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(1) violates the Second Amendment as applied to a person whose only predicate is a second DUI conviction.
NEW Palliative Care After Suicide Attempts: Now What?
J Pain Symptom Manage. 2026.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · affirmed
Whether an expert opinion formed without observing parent-child interaction can support termination of parental rights for mental illness.
2026 NY Slip Op 05906
NEW Sedric D. Elzie a/k/a Sedric Elzie v. State of Mississippi
Miss. Ct. App. · affirmed
Whether a court may find a defendant competent based solely on an unrebutted expert report after the defendant refused to cooperate.
Seeboth v. State Dept. of State Hospitals
Cal. Ct. App. · affirmed
Whether the statutory right to unopened mail applies to a sexually violent predator committed to a state hospital, not just LPS patients.
Haw. Sup. Ct. · affirmed in part
Whether a court may sua sponte apportion fault to nonparty tortfeasors under a government-liability statute without notice or a hearing.
Appellate Court of Illinois · reversed
5th Cir. · affirmed
Whether tasing a mentally impaired suspect once for ignoring commands and throwing objects violated clearly established law.
Ohio Ct. App. · affirmed
Whether a prosecutor's accountability argument requires a curative instruction that an insanity acquittal leads to commitment.
2026 Ohio 3958
J Hist Med Allied Sci. 2026;81(4):440-460.
Wash. Ct. App.
N.C. Ct. App.
In the Interest of M.L., H.L., and G.L. v. the State of Texas
Texas Court of Appeals, 9th District (Beaumont) · affirmed
Whether omission of a fit-parent instruction from an unobjected-to conservatorship charge permits a deemed finding of unfitness.
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