US v. Comstock
| Decision Date | 12 January 2010 |
| Docket Number | No. 08-1224.,08-1224. |
| Citation | 176 L. Ed. 2d 878,130 S.Ct. 1949 |
| Parties | UNITED STATES, Petitioner, v. Grayson Earl COMSTOCK, Jr., et al. |
| Court | U.S. Supreme Court |
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Solicitor General Elena Kagan for the petitioner.
G. Alan Dubois for the respondents.
Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.
Robert A. Long, Jr., Ann O'Connell, Covington & Burling LLP, Washington, DC, Thomas P. McNamara, Fed. Pub. Def., G. Alan DuBois, Jane E. Pearce, Asst. Fed. Pub. Defenders, Eric J. Brignac, Lauren Brennan, Raleigh, NC, Counsel for Respondents.
Elena Kagan, Solicitor General, Counsel of Record, Tony West, Asst. Atty. Gen., Edwin S. Kneedler, Deputy Solicitor Gen., Curtis E. Gannon, Asst. to the Solicitor Gen., Mark B. Stern, Samantha L. Chaifetz, Washington, D.C.
A federal civil-commitment statute authorizes the Department of Justice to detain a mentally ill, sexually dangerous federal prisoner beyond the date the prisoner would otherwise be released. 18 U.S.C.
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