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In a few weeks the New Jersey Supreme Court will hear the appeals of two civilly committed offenders, and a similar challenge to a Kansas civil commitment law awaits a ruling by the United States Supreme Court.

With her lawyer, she changed the State of Minnesota's commitment law so that a trial is required before a person is involuntarily committed.

New Jersey's sex offender commitment law is generally considered one of the most strict of the 16 in the nation.

A few have been released by judges who found that the commitment law did not apply to them.

But Ms. Kagan relied on the Constitution's commerce clause only glancingly in her argument in favor of the civil commitment law.

"New York has a particular kind of outpatient civil commitment law, but that law comes with millions of dollars of funding for necessary services.

Some 1,200 convicted sex offenders are confined under civil commitment laws.

All of this transformed in the nineteen-sixties, with the development of antipsychotic drugs and changes in commitment laws.

And some proposals — those to revise commitment laws, for example — have the support of some mental health organizations.

More than a dozen other states have enacted civil commitment laws, but opponents fear a threat to civil liberties.

But "you can't really say civil commitment laws are wrong and bad because there are those offenders that you know will reoffend," he said.