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Rutledge v. Springborn-836 F. Supp. 531 (ND IL 1993)

Case • 1993

of Joliet officials (id. 103): They never liked me. I always stood on what I believed. If they didn't give me something, I wrote grievances of everything. I'd make sure everything was proper. n7 ...

Williams v. Mehra-186 F.3d 685 (6th Cir. 1999) (en banc)

Case • 1999

on appeal is not what facts the parties may be able to prove, but whether the plaintiff's facts, taken at their best, show a violation of clearly established law. Johnson v. Jones, 515 U.S. 304, 311 (1995 ...

Covington v. District of Columbia-839 F.Supp 894 (DC DC 1993)

Case • 1993

to which counsel are entitled. Specifically, this court must decide what the reasonable hourly rate for plaintiffs' counsels' legal services is, whether plaintiffs may recover fees for the stipulated time ...

Phelps v. Dunn-965 F.2d 93 (6th Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

participation rights. Thus, there is a factual issue of what constitutes "participation in religious services" and whether such participation was denied to Phelps. [62] With regard to the question ...

Mathie v. Fries-121 F.3d 808 (2nd Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

about his homosexuality and his life outside the prison -- inquiring, for instance, when did Mathie discover that he was gay, whether his family knew about his sexual orientation, what type of men he ...

Ortiz v. Voinovich-211 F.Supp.2d 917 (S.D. Ohio 2002).

Case • 2002

Prison Investigator Bright and Warden Rogers, who instructed her to make out a written statement. On the next day, Ortiz appeared before Bright and Rogers and again explained what had happened. Bright ...

Essex County Jail Inmates v. Amato-726 F.Supp. 539 (D NJ 1989)

Case • 1989

. Hernandez-Colon, 672 F. Supp. 627, 637 (D.P.R. 1987), the district court found that Sincere thorough and effective efforts to comply with court orders are nothing more than what the law expects ...

Williams v. Wilkinson-132 F.Supp.2d 601 (SD OH 2001)

Case • 2001

trial, it is determined that injunctive relief is necessary, this Court will conduct an additional hearing to explore the requirements outlined by 18 U.S.C. Ã§ 3626(a)(1)(A), including: what would ...

People v. Barham-337 Ill. App. 3d 1121 (Ill. App.Ct. 2003)

Case • 2003

specifically recall what she served to other members of the group or any patron other than defendant that evening. None of the servers could state that defendant consumed the beers they delivered to him or how ...

Kansas v. Crane-122 S.Ct. 407 (2002)

Case • 2002

, the approach embodied in Henricks. That Hendricks limited its discussion to volitional disabilities is not surprising, as the case involved pedophilia -- a mental abnormality involving what a lay person might ...

Kansas v. Crane-122 S.Ct. 867 (2002)

Case • 2002

, the approach embodied in Henricks. That Hendricks limited its discussion to volitional disabilities is not surprising, as the case involved pedophilia -- a mental abnormality involving what a lay person might ...

Sealey v. Glitner-197 F.3d 578 (2nd Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

be helpful on review to have a jury verdict on the issue in the event that this Court disagreed with any ruling of law he might make, he did not instruct the jury on what constitutes a liberty interest ...

Ramirez v. Selsky-817 F. Supp. 1090 (SD NY 1993)

Case • 1993

testified, denying that the weapon was his. Defendant asked plaintiff to what his two witnesses would testify and plaintiff responded that they would be able to say that the weapon found in his cell ...

LeMarbe v. Wisneski-266 F.3d 429 (6th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

clarified that the Mitchell decision was explicitly limited to appeals challenging only the purely legal issues of whether the alleged facts amounted to a constitutional violation and what law was clearly ...

People v. Garcia-84 Cal. 4th 316 (2000)

Case • 2000

and discharge the first shot and ran over to see what was happening. When he looked down into the day room he saw "three inmates in the prone position." *fn3 Defendant asked for and received two more rounds from ...

Federal Crime Bill Passes

Article • December 15, 1994 • from PLN December, 1994

Filed under: Transfers, Police Misconduct, Gender Discrimination -- Women, Sex Offender Registration, Tuberculosis, DNA Testing/Samples, Drug Testing, Crime/Demographics, Crime, Databases, Overcrowding, Education, Disclosure of Records, Consent Decrees, Limitations, Good Time, Three Strikes, Immigration, Death Penalty, Federal Legislation, Fathers in Prison, Mothers in Prison

murder of the anarchists convicted of the Haymarket bombings in Chicago in the 1880's. That makes what has happened all the more repulsive. The crime bill establishes May 1 as "Law Day USA." The law states ...

CCA Florida Jail Operations: An Experiment in Mismanagement

Article • July 15, 2006 • from PLN July, 2006

Filed under: Staff-Prisoner Assault, Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, Prison Rebellion, Systemic Medical Neglect, OB/GYN, Escapes, Overcrowding, Staffing, Toilets, Vermin, Wrongful Release, Wrongful Death, Medical Neglect/Malpractice, Suicides

on services and security measures that the contracts require and prisoners have a constitutional right to receive. As the old adage says, You get what you pay for. Catching Her Own Baby It seems that CCA ...

Stephenson v. Doe-332 F.3d 68 (2nd Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

. But numerous precharge conferences were focused on questions of (1) whether, and on what basis, qualified immunity was available if the jury disbelieved Dingler's self-defense theory, and (2) whether qualified ...

Alexander A. v. Novello-210 F.R.D. 27 (E.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

. The number of permanent beds was limited to what local services providers who wished to operate RTFs proposed to create and, in 1995, the number of beds reached 518 and has not increased since then. See id ...

United States v. Davis-180 F.Supp.2d 797 (E.D.La. 2001)

Case • 2001

. The Court disagrees. While it is premature to decide what specifically the jury will be told, the Court envisions a simple explanation to the effect that "the law" calls for the participation of independent ...