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Civil Liberties

Marine Suing for Facebook-Related Detention

Was forced into a psychiatric ward over posts

Reason Staff | 8.30.2012 6:30 PM

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The former Marine who was forcibly placed in a psychiatric ward by government officials who didn't like his Facebook postings will sue for unlawful arrest, according to his attorneys.

"We are definitely going to move forward with a lawsuit," said Nisha Whitehead, assistant to the president at the Rutherford Institute, the nonprofit civil rights firm defending Brandon Raub.

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