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Gilbreath v. Cutter Biological-931 F.2d 1320 (9th Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

unconvincing the Second Circuit's argument that the statutory scheme's failure to include "prisoners" on what is called "an extensive list"*fn3 of workers who are excepted expressly from FLSA coverage provides ...

Farmer v. Brennan-114 S.Ct. 1970 (1994)

Case • 1994

approaches (though the parties do not put it that way): petitioner asks us to define deliberate indifference as what we have called civil-law recklessness,*fn5 and respondents urge us to adopt an approach ...

Farmer v. Brennan-511 U.S. 825, 114 S.Ct. 1970 (1994)

Case • 2004

to criminal recklessness). The standards proposed by the parties in this case track the two approaches (though the parties do not put it that way): petitioner asks us to define deliberate indifference as what ...

Tanner v. United States-483 U.S. 107, 107 S.Ct. 2739, 97 L.Ed.2d 90 (1987)

Case • 1987

that a time or two. [26] "THE COURT: What's your solution? [27] "MR. MILBRATH: Well, I just think a respectful comment from the Court that if any of them are getting drowsy, they just ask ...

Joseph v. State-26 P.3d 459 (Alaska 2001)

Case • 2001

was consistent with the rule. The appellate record does not establish what "records" were used to cull out prospective jurors. The state's brief asserts that the court relied on computer-generated "criminal ...

Pelletier v. Magnusson-201 F.Supp.2d 148 (D.Me. 2002)

Case • 2002

no contractual obligation to train the correctional staff but asserts that, while he did not formally train staff members he did have conversation with them about what to watch for in certain inmates. (Tofani Dep ...

Butler v. Curry-528 F.3d 624 (9th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

in the absence of further factfinding about what evidence was presented to the state trial court judge in support of the allegation that Butler was on probation at the time of his crime. For that reason, we remand ...

Amatel v. Reno-156 F.3d 192 (DC Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

principle that by their nature such environments must allow regulation more intrusive than what may lawfully apply to the general public. See Safley, 482 U.S. at 84-85; Connick, 461 U.S. at 143; Tinker, 393 ...

Silverstein v Fbop Co Complaint Re Adx Conditions of Confinement 2008

Brief • March 15, 2008

Dimensions sets forth ultimate ideas about fundamental questions about life, purpose, and death because it strives to provide people with an experience of what it means to be human. 69. New Dimensions also ...

Bailey v. MN DOC, MN, Plf Post Trial Memo, Inadequate Asl Interpreter, 2004

Brief • November 17, 2004

Filed under: Deaf Prisoners, Interpreters (Disciplinary Hearings)

inmates when it disciplined him because he attempted to communicate with a guard using American Sign Language (ASL) and the guard misunderstood what he said. Mr. Bailey proved that he was treated ...

Boumediene v. Bush Dc Cp Amicus Brief Guantanamo Detention 2007

Brief • 2007

in Dialectic, 66 Harv. L. Rev. 1362, 1387 (1953) (“If the court finds that what is being done is invalid, its duty is simply to declare the jurisdictional limitation invalid also, and then proceed under ...

Mercado v City of New York Ny Plf Memo in Supp of Plf Mot to Disqualify Suicide Wrongful Death 2010

Brief • 2010

is an interpretation of what a “suicide observation” consists of; she observes repeatedly that a Court order for a suicide observation is not a “suicide observation”. Rather, such a court order is, and has historically ...

Colon v Passaic County Nj Complaint Class Action Conditions of Confinement 2008

Brief • 2008

Constitution, and (2) what type of injunctive relief is appropriate and necessary to ameliorate the current conditions of confinement at PCJ. 4. The claims of the Plaintiffs are typical of the claims ...

Burton v City of Peoria Il Amended Complaint Contractor Misconduct Police Intimidation 2007

Brief • 2007

Dep. 43); in 2004 Burton talked to Officer Butterfield when Mimi Dotson’s car was towed (Burton Dep. 116). 37. The city did not plow the alley or driveway (Powell Dep. 9); Mary Burton only knew what ...

Schwarzenegger, CA, Order dismissing Appeals, Prison Pop, 2010

Brief • January 19, 2010

Filed under: Appeals

court denied the motion, commenting that it preferred to seat jurors throughout the entirety of the courtroom, and “it’s up to the individual judge to decide . . . what’s com fortable.” Id., E–38 ...

Huss v Spokane County Wa Settlement Agreement Jail Booking Fee 2009

Brief • 2009

as the "Final Order"; (ii) whether the distribution of the Net Settlement Amount as provided in the Plan of Allocation should be approved; (iii) whether and in what amount the Named Plaintiff should receive ...

Looking Deep Inside America’s Legalized Torture Chambers

Article • September 30, 2022 • from PLN October, 2022

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

; approach to punishment. At least 300 prisons throughout America, Europe, and South America quickly replicated its philosophy and design. But Pennsylvania discovered almost immediately what was obvious to de ...

Saylor v. Regal Cinemas, MD, Order Partial MSJ - Forceful Removal of Customer by Deputies Leads to Death, 2016

Brief • September 9, 2016

Filed under: Disabled Prisoners, Wrongful Death, Negligence/Reckless Endangerment

support the conclusion that it was reasonable for them to believe that Mr. Saylor posed a threat to others.6 There are material disputes of fact, however, as to what Ms. Crosby told Sgt. Rochford ...

Jjpl Treated Like Trash Juvenile Prisoners Affected by Katrina

Publication

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Hurricane Katrina

objectives: (1) to allow the children held at OPP to tell the story of what happened to them inside that prison before, during and after Hurricane Katrina;10 (2) to identify the institutional failures present ...

Univ Pittsburgh Law Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution Lobel 2009

Publication

Filed under: Control Units/SHU/Solitary Confinement

is the increasing use of prolonged and even permanent forms of harsh solitary con A disturbing trend in in what the American prison system isprisons the increasing finement are known as supermax to incarcerate those ...