Cunningham

MEMORANDUM **

Plaintiff-appellants (“Residents”) are residents at the Washington Department of Social and Health Services Special Commitment Center (“SCC”). The SCC is a secure confinement and treatment facility for persons civilly committed as sexually violent predators. These consolidated appeals arise from injunction proceedings involving the constitutional adequacy of mental health treatment at the SCC. Resident Turay challenges the dissolution of the injunction. Also, Residents claim that the District Court erred in its order of June 2004 by canceling nearly ten million dollars in accrued contempt sanctions without considering whether to order the sanctions paid to the Residents as compensation for harm allegedly suffered while detained at the SCC. Lastly, plaintiff-intervenors (“intervenors”) contend that the District Court improperly denied their motion for reconsideration of the June 2004 decision to cancel the contempt sanctions.

We affirm the District Court’s dissolution of the injunction and denial of intervenors’ motion for reconsideration of the order purging the contempt sanctions. We also affirm the District Court’s order purging the accrued contempt…