Merryfield v. Sullivan

The opinion of the court was delivered by

ROSEN, J.:

Dustin J. Merryfield and Richard A. Quillen are residents of the Lamed State Hospital and are involuntary participants in the Kansas Sexual Predator Treatment Program there. They filed petitions challenging the Program’s implementation of a new administrative grievance procedure and sought habeas corpus relief under K.S.A. 60-1501 et seq.

Without conducting a hearing, the district court summarily denied the petitions. The court held that the petitioners lacked standing to challenge the grievance procedure, that they had failed to assert a…