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State Counsel for Offenders Report

Publication • December 8, 2017

Filed under: Crime/Demographics, Attorneys, Appointment of Counsel, Attorney Client, Public Defenders, Attorney, Civil Procedure, Criminal Procedure

the report, provided edits, and approved the final report. 2 State Counsel for Offenders-What We Do, TEX. DEP’T OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, https://www.tdcj.state.tx.us/divisions/scfo/sco_what_we_do.html (last ...

In re Lawrence-150 Cal. App. 4th 1511, 59 Cal. Rptr. 3d 537 (2007)

Case • 2007

she lived with one of her brothers and his wife. She soon had what was her first serious boyfriend, William Lawrence, got pregnant, married him and later had a second boy. Along the way, her husband ...

NYSBA Electronic Coursebook - FOIL 2018

Publication • September 13, 2018

Filed under: Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)

a.m. - Introductions 9:10 a.m. - I. - Freedom of Information Law What is an Agency? What is a Record? - Making Requests for Records Timelines for FOIL Responses Responding to FOIL Requests Fees ...

Muhammad v. Lockhart-104 F.3d 1069 (8th Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

. 1995). Justice O'Connor first considered what she termed the "extent of [the] relief" that the plaintiff had achieved in Farrar, and found that his effort could hardly be termed successful because he had ...

New Mexico Ex Rel Ortiz v. Reed-118 S.Ct. 1860 (1998)

Case • 1998

, but this is simply not the kind of issue that may be tried in the asylum State. In case after case we have held that claims relating to what actually happened in the demanding State, the law of the demanding State ...

Inmates of the Allegheny County Jail v. Wecht-848 F. Supp. 52 (WD PA 1994)

Case • 1994

by leather thongs, to take comfort in believing that regardless of what the critics said, what I ordered was the right thing to do. I have appreciated the general support of the editorial boards of the major ...

Abdul Wadood v. Nathan-91 F.3d 1023 (7th Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

after the third frivolous suit. [33] The conclusion that sec. 1915(g) applies poses the question what happens to Abdul-Wadood's appeals. Having declared No. 96-1074 frivolous, should we dismiss ...

Froehlich v. State of Wisconsin DOC-196 F.3d 800 (7th Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

millions of people of liberty and would have quite a hard time showing that it was doing so without denying them due process of law. But of course that is not what Wisconsin is doing. It is not even, so far ...

OR Newspaper Publishers v. Dept. of Corr.-988 P.2d 359 (OR 1999)

Case • 1999

. Petitioners argue that the nondisclosure rules exceed the statutory authority of DOC, because they place limits that the voters*fn4 did not authorize on the witnesses. They further argue that, by limiting what ...

Warner v. Orange County Dept. of Probation-115 F.3d 1068 (2nd Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

. The Orange County Probation Department recommended probation on the condition that Warner continue what he had purposefully began, attendance at AA meetings. The sentencing Judge independently arrived ...

Coleman v. Wilson-933 F.Supp. 954 (ED CA 1996)

Case • 1996

that a legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says"). [37] *fn7 While the court believes that the issue is resolved by virtue of the meaning of the word "relief," viewed ...

Bass v. Department of Corrections-684 So.2d 834 (Fla. 1st DCA 1996)

Case • 1996

challenge what are now Florida Administrative Code rules 33-3.005(5) [**2] and 33-3.0084(1)(i)1. They argue that both rules violate the United States Constitution because they deny those who are placed ...

Martinez v. Gomez-137 F.3d 1124 (9th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

no longer in use in California. See generally People v. Yates, 34 Cal. 3d 644, 649, 669 P.2d 1, 3-4 (1983). We understand the argument and are not unsympathetic to it. But our role is to determine what ...

Poullard v. Turner-298 F.3d 421 (5th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

of intangible items, including mental distress. Damages were not itemized, so it is impossible to determine what sum, if any, the jury awarded for mental anguish to permit us to reduce the total award ...

Elliott v. Wackenhut Corrections Corp.-58 Fed.Appx. 704 (9th Cir. 2003).

Case • 2003

find that Elliott's letters included content protected under Cal. Lab. Code § 1102.5, we reverse and remand. 1. As an initial matter, we must determine what claims are before us. In his complaint ...

Thompson v. Owens-889 F.2d 500 (3rd Cir. 1989)

Case • 1989

standards, the requirement of a chain of custody in cases of this type need not be met, but I hope that prison administrators will consider what is fair and not merely what avoids constitutional infraction ...

Thomas v. Estelle-603 F.2d 488 (5th Cir. 1979)

Case • 1979

are closed off from the rest of society and thus unable to seek out what legal help does exist. [15] Guajardo v. Luna, 432 F.2d 1324, 1325 (5th Cir. 1970). This case, although involving prisoners ...

Doe v. Department of Corrections-240 Mich.App. 199 (2000).

Case • 2000

private agency established to provide service to the public. [MCL 37.1301(b); MSA 3.550(301)(b).] The various panels of this Court have struggled to determine what public service means. Does it mean ...

O'Bryan v. Bureau of Prisons-349 F.3d 399 (7th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

to determine how the national government will conduct its own affairs. No one doubts that the Bureau of Prisons itself could choose to accommodate religious practices. By and large, what the Executive Branch may ...

Blair-Bey v. Quick-159 F.3d 591 (DC Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

to establish that Blair-Bey has been deprived of his 'entitlement to have [the Board's] discretion exercised,' " but we were careful to refrain from "decid[ing] now what kind of showing would suffice." Blair-Bey ...