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McQuillion v. Duncan-253 F.Supp.2d 1131 (CD CA 2003)

Case • 2003

Releasing Petitioner Is Appropriate Respondent's Motion to Amend is, in effect, a request for this Court to reconsider the Ninth Circuit's mandate. This Court is without authority to disregard what it has ...

Speedrack Products Group, Ltd.-325 NLRB 109 (1998)

Case • 1998

employees and other employees will be determined solely on the status of the WR em-ployees while in the employee relationship and not on what ultimate control the WR employees may be subjected to by prison ...

Stefanoff v. Hays County, Tex.-154 F.3d 523 (5th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

particularized sense such that the contours of the right are sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right. See Pierce v. Smith, 117 F.3d 866, 871 (5th ...

White v. Henman-977 F.2d 292 (7th Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

exceeded his authority is of course a substantive question, one White has not presented. What he contends is not that the regional director violated the Constitution--or even that he erred--but that he ...

Russo v. Palmer-990 F. Supp. 1047 (ND IL 1998)

Case • 1998

could "overlook" Ã§ 1997e(a)'s prohibition against bringing this action in federal court. To figure out what happened here, the court held a hearing. The court heard testimony from Russo, Counselor ...

Austin v. Wilkinson-372 F.3d 346 (6th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

Court's analysis with respect to what procedures are required to protect a particular liberty interest do provide guidance where the procedures or the interests are in relevant respects analogous. Thus ...

Cunningham v. Sandahl-1998 WK 157415 ( ND IL)

Case • 1998

. However, what the complaint alleges is more than negligence--it alleges pur poseful ignoring of the risk of serious bodily harm or death to Natiera. Cf. Sivard v. Pulaski County, 959 F.2d 662, 669 (7th ...

Russell v. Mississippi Dept of Corrections-814 So.2d 802 (Miss. 2002)

Case • 2002

to who was going to preach, and who was going to preside, what was going to be done, and there was just some general . . . chaos. [19] Langford also stated that inmate-led services caused security ...

Benitez v. Wolff-985 F.2d 662 (2nd Cir. 1993)

Case • 1993

at the hearing to the misconduct alleged; it informs the inmate of what he allegedly has done so that he can prepare a defense, if he chooses, to the specific charges set forth, based on whatever evidence he can ...

Act Up!/Portland v. Bagley-988 F.2d 868 (9th Cir. 1992)

Case • 1992

should be strip searched. He based his decision on two factors. The first was his belief, based on the van driver's report that his tires had been slashed and the fact that Appellees were wearing what ...

Johnson v. Moore-948 F.2d 517 (9th Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

pleading qualified immunity are liable for damages only if the contours of the right they are alleged to have violated are "sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he ...

Beckwith v. Hart-263 F.Supp.2d 1018 (D.Md. 2003)

Case • 2003

interrupted the meeting to tell Ms. Hart that inmate Beckwith wanted multiple Request for Administrative Remedy forms. Ms. Hart instructed Mr. Beckwith to enter the conference room to explain what he wanted ...

Souder v. McGuire-516 F.2d 8 820 (3rd Cir. 1975).

Case • 1975

. United States ex rel. Gerchman v. Maroney,355 F.2d 302 (3d Cir. 1966). [41] What we have said concerning the complexity of the legal issues involved here amply demonstrates that this habeas corpus ...

Moran v, Weldon-57 P.3d 898 (Or. App. 2002).

Case • 2002

what will best promote the welfare of the children. The relevant portions of ORS 109.322 provide:*fn1 [16] "If either parent * * * is imprisoned in a state or federal prison under a sentence ...

Hessel v. O'Hearn-977 F.2d 299 (7t11 Cir. 1992).

Case • 1992

in question were returned the day after they were seized. What harm can have been done? Well, there may have been harm, and of two sorts. First, while the loss of the use of their money for a day was trivial ...

Evans v. Jonathan-253 F.Supp.2d 505 (WD NY 2003).

Case • 2003

on the letter from Deputy Commissioner George Bartlett, the Superintendent denied plaintiff's grievance. Dkt. # 29, Ex. A. What is not clear is whether the Superintendent then submitted plaintiff's grievance ...

Edwards v. Gilbert-867 F.2d 1271 (11th Cir. 1989).

Case • 1989

successful attempt. [14] According to plaintiff's affidavits, adult inmates who occupied cells close to Molbert's cell or who passed by his cell often verbally abused and threatened him about what would ...

Holcomb v. Dept. of Corrections-609 So.2d 751 (Fla. 1st DCA 1992).

Case • 1992

since it issued a show cause order. Contrary to what its brief on appeal suggests, in its return, the department did not contest the factual allegations of the show cause order, which incorporated ...

Is Health Care Too Much to Ask For?

Article • September 15, 1999 • from PLN September, 1999

Filed under: Gender Discrimination -- Women, Medical, Systemic Medical Neglect

this year, under what Cynthia Chandler of the Women's Positive Legal Action Network considers disturbing circumstances. Tina Balagno, an HIV positive prisoner with a history of drug addiction, started ...

Lucasville: A Brief History

Article • December 15, 1993 • from PLN December, 1993

Filed under: Organizing, Prison Rebellion, Overcrowding, Guard Brutality/Beatings

Facility (SOCF) in Lucasville, Ohio, in 1977. I had been transferred from the Ohio State Reformatory (OSR) in Mansfield, Ohio, to what was before the Ohio State Penitentiary, renamed the Columbus ...