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BROWN v. PHILLIPS

No. 14-3325.

801 F.3d 849 (2015)

Eugene BROWN, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Larry J. PHILLIPS, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided September 14, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Brown, Rushville, IL, pro se.

Jan E. Hughes , Attorney, Office of the Attorney General, Chicago, IL, Melissa Schoenbein , Attorney, Craig L. Unrath , Attorney, Heyl, Royster, Voelker & Allen, Peoria, IL, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before WOOD, Chief Judge, and POSNER and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

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...

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