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Branti v. Finkel-445 U.S. 507, 100 S.Ct. 1287, 63 L.Ed. 2d. 574 (19

Case • 1980

, brought the practice within the rule of cases like Board of Education v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624, condemning the use of governmental power to prescribe what the citizenry must accept as orthodox opinion.*fn9 ...

Nelson v. Collins-659 F.2d 420 (4th Cir. 1981)(en banc)

Case • 1981

, the defendants appeal. [23] Since all three of the cases, consolidated in two actions, involve a single state-wide prison system, in which what is done at one institution interacts on the other institutions ...

Giano v. Senkowski-54 F.3d 1050 (2nd Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

what qualifies as another means of expression. See Turner, 482 U.S. at 78 (regulation which prohibits communication between inmates at different prisons does not deprive inmates of all means ...

Joyce v. Department of Corrections-155 Wash.2d 306, 119 P.3d 825 (Wash. 2005)

Case • 2005

and that this nexus is lacking. We conclude that such a nexus may be relevant and properly brought before the jury, but while the offender's conditions of release are relevant to what is foreseeable, it is not the only ...

Joyce v. Department of Corrections-155 Wn.2d 306; 119 P.3d 825 (WA 2005)

Case • 2005

and that this nexus is lacking. We conclude that such a nexus may be relevant and properly brought before the jury, but while the offender's conditions of release are relevant to what is foreseeable, it is not the only ...

O'Connor v. Keller-510 F.Supp. 1359 (D MD 1981)

Case • 1981

of the officers told Lt. Lawrence Mitchell that O'Connor had injured Officer Sweigert. It is not entirely clear what happened in the "Back Keys" area. O'Connor claims that Officer Keith M. Robinson slammed his head ...

Madison v. Riter-240 F.Supp.2d 566 (WD VA 2003)

Case • 2003

invalid as an establishment of religion despite granting protections [**16] going beyond what the Free Exercise Clause would otherwise require. See Amos, 483 U.S. at 334, 107 S. Ct. at 2867. The question ...

Dusenberry v. United States-122 S.Ct. 694 (2002)

Case • 2002

conclusions about what the Due Process Clause requires of the United States when it seeks to provide notice to a federal inmate of its intention to forfeit property in which the inmate appears to have ...

Alberti v. Heard-600 F.Supp. 443 (S.D.Tex. 1984)

Case • 1984

a staffing plan based on post assignments. What is noteworthy is that the new rule as applied to this case gives this Court no professional guidance whatsoever on jail staffing standards. Abandoning any strict ...

Gwinn v. Awmiller-354 F.3d 1211 (10th Cir. 2004), cert. denied, 543

Case • 2004

good name, reputation, honor, or integrity is at stake because of what the government is doing to him,' a protectible liberty interest may be implicated that requires procedural due process in the form ...

Jones v. Bock-127 S.Ct. 910 (2007)

Case • 2007

of the allegations with merit. See Neitzke v. Williams, 490 U. S. 319, 327 (1989). [26] Congress addressed that challenge in the PLRA. What this country needs, Congress decided, is fewer and better prisoner suits ...

Norwood v. Vance-572 F.3d 626 (9th Cir. 2009)

Case • 2009

, inmates were confined to their cells and normal programs were suspended while officials investigated the violence. Based on what they learned, officials gradually eased restrictions on specific gangs ...

Robertson v. Las Animas County Sheriff’s Department-500 F.3d 1185 (10th Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

hearing, and he could not hear what the judge and his attorney were saying. He told the detention officer that he could not hear what was going on, but she did nothing about it. Other inmates, who were also ...

Balle v. Kennedy-73 F.4th 545 (7th Cir. 2023)

Case • 2023

because it concluded Balle had not alleged that they "had the authority or expertise to fix the sink, or otherwise indicate what action they could have taken" to fix [**8] the sink. It determined ...

Ellis v. Ottawa Cty. Sheriff-2024 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 35043 (N.D. Okla.)

Case • 2024

; A. Hourly Rates In determining whether an hourly rate is reasonable, courts consider "what the evidence shows the market commands for civil rights or analogous litigation." Case v. Unified Sch. Dist. No. 233 ...

Williams v. Kaufman County-352 F.3d 994 (5th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

that what he is doing violates that right. This is not to say that an official action is protected by qualified immunity unless the very action in question has previously been held unlawful ...

Bozeman v. Orum-199 F.Supp.2d 1216 (M.D.Ala. 2002)

Case • 2002

:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., Haggard had what was apparently a mental breakdown in his cell. He stripped his clothes off and flooded the area by stopping up the commode. While shouting phrases like ...

Jones v. Marcum-197 F.Supp.2d 991 (S.D.Ohio 2002)

Case • 2002

the entryway through which they entered (id. at 64), and the employee who had asked them to leave followed them out. (Id. at 68.) [16] Outside of the pavilion, Jones asked the employee what ...

Not the Usual Suspects: The Politics of the Prison Boom

Article • July 15, 2008 • from PLN July, 2008

Filed under: Racial Discrimination, Crime, Victims, Statistics/Trends, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty, State Legislation, Federal Legislation

” in the criminal justice system. “We should not forget that justice is done when people get what they deserve,” Barr declared. Governmental organizations were not the only ones that exploited the victims issue ...

Payne v. Commonwealth Dept. of Corr.-582 Pa. 375, 871 A.2d 795 (Pa. 2005)

Case • 2005

to support what is essentially a cause of action for injunctive relief in excess of ninety days. This provision in no way precludes or restrains the court in its fact-finding power or in imposing a remedy ...