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Article • May 15, 2007
Mandatory Language in Montana Parole Statute Creates Liberty Interest by The U.S. Supreme Court held that mandatory language in Montana's parole statutes created a liberty interest in parole. State prisoners who had been denied parole brought a class action § 1983 lawsuit against the State Board of Pardons and its …
Article • May 15, 2007
Montana Parole Statute Creates Liberty Interest by The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held that Montana's parole statute created a liberty interest in parole. State prisoners who had been denied parole brought a class action § 1983 lawsuit against the State Board of Pardons and its Chair …
Article • May 15, 2007
New York: Liberty Interest in Work Release by The New York Supreme Court, New York County, held that a prisoner's removal from a work release program without allowing him to participate in the hearing violated due process. While on work release, state prisoner Simon Anderson submitted a urinalysis that allegedly …
FL Ad-Seg Rules May Create Liberty Interest by The court of appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that regulations at the Florida State Prison in Starke may create a due process liberty interest. The regulations at issue provided for the placement of a prisoner on Close Management (CM) confinement. The …
Sex Offender Must Meet Stigma-Plus Test to Sue for Reputation Damage by The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals held that reputational damage alone is insufficient to constitute a protected liberty interest. This 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action was brought by a minor against nine employees of the Hale County Department …
Tennessee: Fine Imposed on Prisoner for Refusing Drug Test Reversed by In this strongly-worded opinion decrying the state attorney general's litigation practices, the Tennessee Court of Appeals held that a prisoner's petition challenging the imposition of a fine for refusing to take a drug test stated a claim. On October …
NY Prisoner Entitled to Hearing Before Temporary Release Committee by The Supreme Court, New York County, held that the removal of a prisoner from a work release program without a hearing deprived him of a protected liberty interest. Simon Anderson was participating in the Lincoln Correctional Facility Work Release Program …
Federal Court Clarifies Texas Prisoners' Disciplinary Appeal Rights by by Matthew T. Clarke A federal district court in Austin, Texas, held that: (1) pending administrative remedies toll the 28 U.S.C. §2254(d)(2) one-year limitations period; (2) a prisoner's transfer to another prison is not a valid reason to deny him as …
South Carolina: Liberty Interest Not Implicated by Denial of Rehabilitation by The Supreme Court of South Carolina held that the denial of a prisoner's grievance requesting immediate enrollment in the second phase of a sex offender treatment program (SOTP) did not create a liberty interest entitling him to have the …
One Hundred Fifty Dollars Awarded For Federal Prisoner's Personal Property Loss by Federal prisoner Jonah Nwaokocha brought Federal Tort Claims Act (FTCA) and Bivens claims against Bureau of Prisons (BOP) employees in their individual and official capacities challenging conditions of his confinement and loss of personal property including legal papers. …
Drug Program Removal Requires Due Process by The Eastern District Court of New York held that prisoners in New York States High Impact Incarceration Program had a state created liberty interest in remaining in the program. Removal from the program required due process. Michael Galloway was a state parole violator …
Supreme Court Addresses Mail, Good-Time, Legal Aid, Disciplinary Issues by The U.S. Supreme Court held that restoration of good-time was unavailable under § 1983; some constitutional rights are retained in prison disciplinary proceedings; minimal due process is required if loss of good-time is a possibility; disciplinary due process procedures ordered …
1,300 Days in Segregation Atypical Under Sandin by A federal district court in New York declined to grant a state prisoner's motion for a Temporary Restraining Order/Preliminary Injunction seeking release from segregation. The plaintiff had been sentenced to consecutive segregation' sentences totaling 4i years for misconduct. He alleged violations of …
State Law Creates Liberty Interest by The Supreme Court found that a state law gave a Pennsylvania prisoner a liberty interest in remaining in general population which could not be taken without due process. They ruled, however, that the limited actions taken by prison authorities constituted due process. After being …
Article • May 15, 2007
Court Rejects Challenge to West Virginia Parole Denial by In West Virginia, the state Supreme Court says parole is a liberty interest. However, the Fourth Circuit says that only "minimal procedure" is required--at most, a statement of reasons for parole denial. (629) The fact that the petitioner's parole hearing was …
Administrative Exhaustion Tolls Statute of Limitations by The "prescriptive period" (statute of limitations) is tolled pending administrative exhaustion because the prisoner is barred from bringing the action until exhaustion is finished. Once exhaustion is complete, the prisoner is legally capable of going forward and the statute begins again to run. …
Challenge to BOP Law Enforcement Notification Law Dismissed by A Bureau of Prisons regulation requiring notice to state and local law enforcement officers of release of persons with current or prior convictions for drug trafficking or crimes of violence does not deny due process. The plaintiff does not have a …
County Liable for Miscalculating Detainees Sentence by The plaintiff was denied credit for time served through a record-keeping error arising from the existence of two indictments for the same criminal act. A county policy allegedly prohibited staff from counting days for the same charge under two different court case numbers …
No Liberty Interest in Sex Offender Classification by A prisoner plaintiff said he had no internal procedure available to challenge his sex offender classification. Defendants said that the grievance system permitted classification matters to be aired. The court decides the question in favor of defendants and dismisses for non-exhaustion, noting …
Article • May 15, 2007
No Liberty Interest in Good Time Not Yet Accrued by The petitioner challenged a change in state good time law that restricted his ability to earn discretionary good time in the future. That claim should have been brought under § 1983 rather than habeas corpus. It is analogous to disputes …
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