John Montin v. Bill Gibson

MELLOY, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff John Maxwell Montin appeals the district court’s 1 adverse grant of summary judgment on his civil-rights complaint. We affirm.

I. Background

Montin is an involuntarily committed mental patient housed in the secure forensics unit of the Lincoln Regional Center in Lincoln, Nebraska (“Center”). He was confined to the Center in 1994 after a jury found him not guilty by reason of insanity following a trial on charges of false imprisonment and use of a firearm to commit a felony. In 2007, he sued various officials alleging that a facility-wide change in policy deprived…