173093P.pdf   09/11/2019  John Van Orden  v.  Mark Stringer
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  17-3093
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Beam and Grasz, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Missouri Sexually Violent Predator Act. In action by persons 
   committed under the provisions of the Act - Mo. Rev. Stat. Sections 
   632.480-632.525 - contending the statute was unconstitutional as applied, 
   the residents in the program did not have a substantive due process right 
   to have the state officials change the way they conduct annual reviews of 
   the civilly-committed persons, design procedures for release of low-risk 
   residents to less restrictive housing or carry out a statutory duty to 
   authorize petitions for release of low risk residents; the entitlement to 
   any of these actions is not deeply rooted in the Nation's history and 
   traditions or implicit in the concept of ordered liberty; the residents 
   have the ability under the Act to petition a state court for release, and 
   the state court has final authority to determine and apply the correct 
   legal standard for continued detention; alternatively, applying this 
   court's decision in Karsjens v. Piper, 845 F.3d 394 (8th Cir. 2017), the 
   shortcomings in the Missouri system do not shock the judicial conscience; 
   the district court did not err in determining plaintiffs had abandoned 
   their state-law claims.