{"id":1043,"date":"2018-11-24T11:33:30","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T17:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2019-10-21T15:25:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:25:46","slug":"willis-v-palmer-n-d-iowa-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/11\/24\/willis-v-palmer-n-d-iowa-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis v. Palmer (N.D. Iowa 2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"introduction-wrapper\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Willis v. Palmer, No. 12- CV\u20134086 (N.D. Iowa 2018)<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Nature of Case: <\/strong> Plaintiffs, all civilly committed individuals housed within Iowa&#8217;s Civil Commitment Unit for Sex Offenders, brought civil rights challenge arguing that their continued detention was unconstitutional on a number of grounds. Subsequent to prior dismissal, remaining claims where whether the treatment program met the constitutional &#8220;shock the conscience&#8221; standard, whether the application of the civil commitment statutes were punitive, and whether the procedures at the civil commitment facility were the least restrictive alternative.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\nHolding:\u00a0<\/strong> Held: District Court, largely in light of the 8th Circuit&#8217;s Decision in <a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2017\/07\/20\/karsjens-v-piper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Karsjens v. Piper<\/em><\/a>, dismissed the litigation as a matter of law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Case Documents<\/em><\/h2>\n<ul class=\"default\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/61\/2018\/11\/Opinion-Order-Dismissing.pdf\">Opinion &amp; Order Dismissing<\/a>\u00a0| view via <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=16986488099079487468&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4000005&amp;as_vis=1&amp;oi=scholaralrt&amp;hist=dzTKkIsAAAAJ:8942766373161278734:AAGBfm24baeBTmlJlLMSxJX6o5DHAKupPA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Scholar<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>News and Related Materials<\/em><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Civil rights lawsuit brought by individuals civilly committed in Iowa challenging constitutionality of continued detention. District court dismissed various claims in light of Karsjens decision. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/2018\/11\/24\/willis-v-palmer-n-d-iowa-2018\/\" class=\"more-link\">Willis v. Palmer (N.D. Iowa 2018)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,94,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-1043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-civil-commitment-cases","7":"tag-8th-cir","8":"tag-civil-commitment","9":"tag-iowa","10":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mitchellhamline.edu\/sex-offense-litigation-policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}