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Cameron v. Tomes-783 F. Supp. 1511 (DC MA 1992)

Case • 1992

that professional judgment in fact was exercised. It is not appropriate for the courts to specify which of several professionally acceptable choices should have been made." Id. Thus the question is "not what ...

Ruble v. King-911 F.Supp. 1544 (ND GA 1995)

Case • 1995

memorandum regarding the incident, Lieutenant Thieke states the following: I asked inmate Anderson what is the problem he stated he was just real tired of staff not doing what they are supose [sic ...

Brown v. Doe-803 F. Supp. 932 (SD NY 1992)

Case • 1992

establishing that it matters at what point during trial the judgment on competence is made. Access to Expert Services Petitioner claims that he was denied the right to expert services. In Ake v. Oklahoma, 470 ...

Johnson v. Breeden-280 F.3d 1308 (11th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

Emergency Response Team responded to the disturbance. [15] The accounts of what happen thereafter diverge, and the jury heard sharply conflicting evidence. Johnson's version of events is that after ...

Palmigiano v. DiPrete-737 F.Supp. 1257 (D RI 1990)

Case • 1990

Nathan also testified. In essence, he reiterated much of what he already submitted in his reports, which are filed as part of the record in this case. The need to expedite this Memorandum and Order ...

Shabazz v. O'Lone-782 F.2d 416 (3rd Cir. 1986)(en banc)

Case • 1986

to the state but also replaces the Supreme court's established doctrine of deference with what amounts to a "least restrictive alternative" analysis. This new standard opens the door to a floodgate of future ...

Hensley v. Wilson-850 F.2d 269 (6th Cir. 1988)

Case • 1988

here was "clearly established" at the time of the alleged violations. The principal authority on what process is due in prison disciplinary hearings is still Wolff v. McDonnell, 418 U.S. 539, 41 L. Ed ...

Church Of The Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. and Ernesto-508 U.S. 520; 113 S.Ct. 2217; 124 L.Ed.2d 472 (199

Case • 1993

in the First Amendment, our cases have used it as shorthand to describe, at least in part, what the Clause commands. See, e. g., Jimmy Swaggart Ministries v. Board of Equalization of California,493 U.S. 378, 384 ...

County of Sacramento v. Lewis-523 U.S. 833, 118 S.Ct. 1708, 140 L.Ed.2d 1043 (19

Case • 1998

government power arbitrarily and oppressively exercised). While due process protection in the substantive sense limits what the government may do in both its legislative, see, e.g., Griswold v. Connecticut ...

Shain v. Ellison-273 F.3d 56 (2nd Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

not arrest Shain for violation of the order of protection, he interviewed Denier because [17] [He] wanted to get a clearer picture of exactly what [Shain] did, to see if [he] could arrest him ...

Shwenk v. Hartford-204 F.3d 1187 (9th Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

based on what he presents on appeal as two separate grounds: first, the alleged failure to state a claim under the GMVA; and second, qualified immunity with respect to both the GMVA and Section 1983 ...

Blair-Bey v. Quick-151 F.3d 1036 (DC Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

and Kyl, indicate that prison conditions litigation is what they were targeting. All examples of suits they hoped to squelch were prison conditions suits, including lawsuits challenging "insufficient ...

Hardwick v. Ault-447 F.Supp. 116 (MD GA 1978)

Case • 1978

for an indefinite duration and were not told what they had to do to regain entrance into the general prison populace. In some instances, even after the prison officials determined that an H-House inmate was ready ...

“To Get Stuff and Sell It for As Much As We Can Get”: Federal Prison Industries and Electronics Recycling

Article • March 15, 2007 • from PLN March, 2007

Filed under: Misconduct/Corruption, DOC/BOP misconduct, Retaliation against Staff, Whistleblowing, Prison Industries, Prison Labor, Workplace Injury, Work Conditions/Safety, Toxic Fumes/Chemicals

on in his house. A History of Investigations The question is: What did high-ranking BOP officials know, when did they know it, and did they dodge their responsibility to know by refusing to conduct ...

Wilson v. Layne-119 S.Ct. 1692 (1999)

Case • 1999

at the time of the search. "Clearly established" for qualified immunity purposes means that the contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing ...

Spruill v. Gillis-372 F.3d 218 (3rd Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

the doctor. Spruill also informed Gooler about his fall, to which Gooler responded, "so, what do you want me to do?" Spruill filed an official inmate grievance on May 4 complaining about the fall and new ...

Lewis v. Board of Sedgwick County Com'rs-140 F.Supp.2d 1125 (D.Kan. 2001)

Case • 2001

was released from custody a short time later after making a first appearance before a judge. The detention officers' version of what happened that morning, in brief, was that plaintiff was banging on the door ...

“This Man Will Almost Certainly Die”

Article • December 8, 2016 • from PLN December, 2016

Filed under: Private Prisons, GEO Group/Wackenhut, Contractor Misconduct, Guard Misconduct, DOC/BOP misconduct, Medical Misconduct, Government Misconduct, Seizures, Private Contractors, War on Drugs, Cost of Prison Systems, Failure to Protect (General), Collateral consequences of prison, Immigration, Failure to Protect (Wrongful Death), Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement, Suicides

nurse practitioners, then they can trust that the system is catching it. But when people don’t know what to look for, that’s what you worry about.” In significant discomfort on one ...

A Boy Among Men

Article • March 28, 2017

Filed under: Prisoner-Prisoner Assault, Prison Rape Elimination Act, Failure to Protect (Juveniles)

A Boy Among Men by Maurice Chammah What happens when you throw a teenager into an adult prison? Guess. by Maurice Chammah, The Marshall Project Three years ago, the young man who would ...

Gregory v City of Louisville Ky Motion to Strike Expert Testimony Ken Katsaris 2003

Brief • 2003

barely any data documenting what he deems to be nationally accepted police practices. So too, his conclusions about the propriety of non-exigent one-on-one show-ups are inadmissible because ...