Legal Opinion
Eugene Brown v. Larry Phillips
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided September 14, 2015No. 14-3325PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Eugene Brown is civilly committed to the Rushville Treatment and Detention Center under Illinois’s Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Act. The Act authorizes detention of persons who are determined through a civil proceeding to be a “sexually violent person.” See 725 ILCS 207/40. Brown and 17 others confined at Rushville sued the facility’s officials and clinical staff under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. They allege that policies restricting their access to movies, video games, and video game consoles violate the First Amendment. The district court entered summary judgment for the…
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