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KING v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES

No. 14-55320.

885 F.3d 548 (2018)

William KING, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES; Leroy D. Baca, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed March 12, 2018.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ari J. Savitzky (argued), Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, Washington, D.C.; Alan Schoenfeld , Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP, New York, New York; for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Rina M. Mathevosian (argued) and Henry Patrick Nelson , Nelson & Fulton, Los Angeles, California, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before: William A. Fletcher and Sandra S. Ikuta, Circuit Judges, and Sarah Evans Barker, District Judge.

OPINION

Plaintiff William King was incarcerated in a Los Angeles County jail for almost eight years, from November 2005 to August 2013, as a civil detainee while awaiting the adjudication of an involuntary commitment petition under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act ("SVPA"). The reason for the extensive...

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