Legal Opinion
Walker v. Hayden
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 11, 2008No. 08-2628PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
Appellants Marcellous Walker, Eric Hendrickson, Frederick Pharm, Edwin Jones, Brandon Sustman, and Shermell Tarbor have been civilly committed as sexually violent persons, Wis. Stat. § 980.02, and as relevant here have been confined at the Sand Ridge Secure Treatment Center. The appellants sued Kevin Hayden, the former Secretary of the Department of Health and Family Services (“DHFS”), and Steve Watters, the director of Sand Ridge, claiming a litany of constitutional *467violations. The district court dismissed the complaint for failure to state a claim. We affirm.
Our review is de novo.…
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