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Carver v. Knox County, Tennessee-887 F.2d 1287 (6th Cir. 1989)

Case • 1989

and proceed to the issues. [28] III. [29] A. [30] This case cannot be considered in isolation. What began as one inmate's effort to obtain relief from local conditions that he considered ...

Hanrahan v. Hampton-446 U.S. 754, 100 S.Ct. 1987, 64 L.Ed.2d 670 (1980

Case • 1980

on the merits of his claims, either in the trial court or on appeal. The congressional Committee Reports described what were considered to be appropriate circumstances for such an award by reference to two cases ...

Nicholas v. Miller-109 F.Supp.2d 152 ( ND NY 2000)

Case • 2000

shall not consider this DOCS argument for present purposes. n2 No matter what plaintiff or the other inmates can write or research in isolation, if they cannot gather to discuss common issues ...

Swift v. State of California-384 F.3d 1184 (9th Cir. 2004)

Case • 2004

. In Anderson, we considered what immunity should extend to the Chairman of the Oregon State Parole Board and the Assistant Director of the Oregon Interstate Compact. Anderson, 714 F.2d at 907-08. We held ...

Skinner v. Uphoff-324 F.Supp.2d 1278 (D. WY 2004).

Case • 2005

and the desirability of avoiding frequent appellate review of what essentially are factual matters." Hensley, 461 U.S. at 433. However, a "request for attorney's fees should not result in a second major litigation." Id ...

Judd v. AT&T-152 Wn.2nd 195 (WA 2004).

Case • 2004

.520 itself, which merely directs the WUTC to adopt regulations, form the basis of a CPA violation? Similarly, what kind of violation can or should be divined from the amorphous 'legislative finding ...

May v. Sheahan-226 F.3d 876 (7th Cir. 2000)

Case • 2000

divests a district court of the authority to order discovery or conduct other burdensome pretrial proceedings. [20] But what about a district court's authority to accept an amended complaint ...

Brady v. Attygala-196 F.Supp.2d 1016 (CD CA 2002)

Case • 2002

or expect from the prison administrative process; he had "won" his appeal and had been granted all the relief he sought in his grievance. Nowhere have the defendants articulated what other types of relief ...

Thielman v. Leean-282 F.3d 478 (7th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

, part of what we will call Chapter 980, defines a sexually violent person as one "who has been convicted of a sexually violent offense . . . and who is dangerous because he or she suffers from a mental ...

Bazetta v. McGinnis-286 F.3d 311 (6th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

that, when the defendants implemented the new regulations, they had no idea how many visitors would be affected by them, or what the effect would be on visitors and inmates. See id. at 821. In light ...

United States v. Johnson-327 F.3d 554 (6th Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

in the unauthorized practice of law requires us to examine, as a preliminary matter, what constitutes the practice of law. n10 In Illinois, [**15] the practice of law includes, at a minimum, representation provided ...

Jackson v. Austin-241 F.Supp.2d 1313 (D KS 2003)

Case • 2003

. The common knowledge exception applies if what is alleged to have occurred in the officer's conduct is so obviously lacking in reasonable care and conduct and the conduct is so negligent that the malicious ...

Concepcion v. Morton-306 F.3d 1347 (3rd Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

by, and Concepcion responded by asking, "What's your problem?" App. at A112-13. Concepcion claims that the two men then started swinging at each other simultaneously. [21] According to Concepcion, he ...

Burton v. Lehman-153 Wn.2d 416; 103 P.3d 1230 (Wash. 2005).

Case • 2005

imprisoned or restrained.' Id. at 318. When, as here, the statutory terms are plain and unambiguous we assume the legislature meant exactly what it said and decline to construe the statute otherwise.*fn3 See ...

State v. Hurt-107 Wn.App. 816, 27 P.3d 1276 (2001)

Case • 2001

245 (1988). In Houston, the Court noted that the federal rule for filing appeals did not define what constituted filing. Neither did the rule designate where or with whom the appeal must be filed. Id ...

Willis v. Tennessee Department of Correction-113 S.W.3d 706 (TN 2003)

Case • 2003

be analyzed with a two-part inquiry: (1) whether the interest involved can be defined as "life," "liberty" or "property" within the meaning of the Due Process Clause; and if so (2) what process is due ...

True v. Stewart-18 P.3d 707 (Ariz. 2001)

Case • 2001

Safety Commission, it has also stated that "a legislature says in a statute what it means and means in a statute what it says there. When the words of a statute are unambiguous, then, this first canon ...

Rice v. State-76 P.3d 1048 (KS App. 2003)

Case • 2003

recent memo simply clarified what part of mailroom has in enforcing the policy. Also, since it appeared some inmates were not following the policy, we gave reasonable notice of the fact that this needs ...

Searcy v. Simmons-299 F.3d 1220 (10th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

with a choice: take advantage of a benefit the KDOC provided or turn down that benefit in order to avoid providing what he feared, perhaps legitimately, would be self-incriminating statements. "Although ...

Noble v. Board of Parole-327 Or. 485, 964 P.2d 990 (1998)

Case • 1998

notification and the record on review did not show what actions (if any) had been taken in that regard, his claims were "premature." To the extent that the Board's concern was that petitioner's claims were too ...