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SELING v. YOUNG

No. 99-1185.

531 U.S. 250 (2001)

SELING, SUPERINTENDENT, SPECIAL COMMITMENT CENTER v. YOUNG

United States Supreme Court.

Decided January 17, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen Hart, Senior Assistant Attorney General of Washington, argued the cause for petitioner. With her on the briefs were Christine O. Gregoire, Attorney General, Sarah Blackman Sappington, Assistant Attorney General, David J. W. Hackett, Special Assistant Attorney General, and William Berggren Collins, Senior Assistant Attorney General.

Robert C. Boruchowitz argued the cause for respondent. With him on the briefs were David B. Hirsch, Dennis P. Carroll, and Christine Jackson.*

O'Connor, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Rehnquist, C. J., and Scalia, Kennedy, Souter, Ginsburg, and Breyer, JJ., joined. Scalia, J., filed a concurring opinion, in which Souter, J., joined, p. 267. Thomas, J., filed an opinion concurring in the judgment, p. 270. Stevens, J., filed a dissenting opinion, p. 274.

Justice O'Connor, delivered the opinion of the Court.

Washington State's Community Protection Act of 1990 authorizes the civil commitment of "sexually violent predators," persons who suffer from a mental abnormality or personality disorder that makes them likely to engage in predatory acts of sexual violence. Wash. Rev. Code § 71.09.010 et seq. (1992). Respondent, Andre Brigham Young, is confined as a sexually...

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