# Burgess, Steven J. v. Watters, Steve

> Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · November 2, 2006 · 467 F.3d 676

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9815355

## Case

- **Full name:** Steven J. BURGESS, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Steven WATTERS, Respondent-Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
- **Decided:** November 2, 2006
- **Citations:** 467 F.3d 676; 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 27161; 2006 WL 3093635
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Ripple
- **Judges:** Ripple, Wood, Williams
- **Nature of suit:** prisoner
- **Cited by:** 22 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding that the Wisconsin Supreme Court did not unreasonably apply clearly established federal law in determining that Public Law 280 conferred civil jurisdiction to the State of Wisconsin to commit Burgess, an enrolled member of an Indian tribe, as a sexually violent person

## Opinion text

*688 RIPPLE, Circuit Judge,
concurring in the judgment.
In my view, the Supreme Court of Wisconsin reached a reasonable result when it determined that, for purposes of section 2 of Public Law 280, 67 Stat. 588 (1953), the commitment procedure under the Wisconsin Sexually Violent Persons Commitment Statutes, Wis. Stat. § 980 et seq. (chapter 980), is criminal in nature.

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