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June 06, 2025   
Health Law Weekly

Fourth Circuit Says Federal Courts Can’t Review Patient’s Challenge to State Consent Order Ending Involuntary Commitment

  • June 06, 2025

A federal district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction under the Rooker-Feldman doctrine over a patient’s challenge to a state consent order that placed certain conditions on her release from an involuntary commitment, the Fourth Circuit held June 4.

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