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Block v. Rutherford-468 U.S. 576, 104 S.Ct. 3227, 82 L.Ed.2d 438 (1984

Case • 1984

contact with their loved ones" was not sufficiently great to warrant deprivation of such contact. Ibid. Striking what it believed was a "reasonable balance" between the twin considerations of prison ...

Raygor v. Regents of the University of Minnesota-534 U.S. 533, 122 S.Ct. 999 (2002)

Case • 2002

dismissed on Eleventh Amendment grounds, but this Court is looking for a clear statement of what the rule includes, not what it excludes. Pp. 8-12. [13] (c) Petitioners argue that the tolling provision ...

Preston v. New York-223 F.Supp.2d 452 (S.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

to his case. Furthermore, Preston is currently incarcerated at Wende Correctional Facility, serving a sentence on an unrelated charge. It is not clear on what conviction he is incarcerated. Accordingly ...

Howard v. City of Columbus-239 Ga.App. 399, 521 S.E.2d 51 (Ga. App. 1999).

Case • 1999

personnel know what is specifically wrong with the inmate, other than that he is seriously sick. Adams v. Poag, supra; Brown v. Hughes, supra. Such repeated and prolonged denial of access to a physician ...

Jackson v. Goodwin-400 F.2d 529 (5th Cir. 1968).

Case • 1968

was introduced. The first six articles were entitled as follows: (1) 'Looting, Burning -- Now Guerrilla War'; (2) 'Anarchy Growing Threat to Big Cities -- Tolerance for Rioters in Question'; (3) 'What 'Black Power ...

State v. Felix-50 P.3d 807 (Alaska App. 2002).

Case • 2002

than February 23, 2001." (Sic: As just explained, Felix had already provided proof of compliance, and this is what prompted the magistrate to issue the amended judgment.) [32] The Fain appeal ...

Cochran v. Pinchak-401 F.3d 184 (3d Cir. 2005)

Case • 2005

, or activities" accessible to all disabled individuals, that official would be impeded in his ability to make an individual assessment of what is rational and safe in the prison context. Title II's mandate would ...

Garcia v. S.U.N.Y. Health Sciences Center of Brook-280 F.3d 98 (2nd Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

U.S. 1, 13, 33 L. Ed. 842, 10 S. Ct. 504 (1890), the significance of the Eleventh Amendment is not what it provides in its text, but the larger "background principle of state sovereign immunity" [**15 ...

Making the Bad Guy Pay: The Growing Use of Cost Shifting as an Economic Sanction

Article • April 15, 2008 • from PLN April, 2008

Filed under: Work Release, Prison Labor, Medical Expenses, Prisoner Privileges, Rehabilitation/Recidivism, Parole, Probation, Seizure of Prisoner Funds, Restitution, Bond Fees, Booking Fees

at the diversion center is $600, her monthly transportation costs $52, and miscellaneous other expenses eat up what's left. Hurley's attorney explains "[t]his is a situation where if this woman was able to write ...

Johnson v. Pearson-316 F.Supp.2d 307 (E.D.Va. 2004)

Case • 2004

conduct to be unlawful does not prevent the denial of qualified immunity). What is obvious is that the contour must be clear such that "a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates ...

Daniels v. City of New York-198 F.R.D. 409 (S.D.N.Y. 2001)

Case • 2001

force was used in dealing with that plaintiff. The amount of force utilized undoubtedly varied from plaintiff to plaintiff and what might be excessive in one case might be justified in another ...

In re the Termination of Parental Rights to Max G.-716 N.W.2d 845 (WI 2006)

Case • 2006

Wis. 2d 433, 665 N.W.2d 785); State v. Cole, 2003 WI 59, ¶10, 262 Wis. 2d 167, 663 N.W.2d 700. [33] ¶20 The purpose of statutory interpretation is to determine what a statute means so that it may ...

Lugosch v. Pyramid Co.-435 F.3d 110 (2nd Cir. 2006)

Case • 2006

over a decade before we set forth in Amodeo I and Amodeo II the standard for determining when a document is a judicial document and what the weight of the presumption of access should be, we stated ...

Norwood v. Woodford-583 F. Supp. 2d 1200 (S.D. Cal. 2008)

Case • 2008

the deprivation of what this court has defined as a basic human need." Id. Similarly, in Lopez v. Smith, 203 F.3d 1122, 1133 (9th Cir. 2000), the Ninth Circuit held that the objective element of the Eighth ...

Kiman v. New Hampshire Dept. of Corrections-451 F.3d 274 (1st Cir. 2006)

Case • 2006

not address this issue in its opinion. The Supreme Court's recent decision in Georgia clarifies the appropriate inquiry on remand. The district court will have to determine, on an issue-by-issue basis, "to what ...

Ford v. County of Grand Traverse-535 F.3d 483 (6th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

to the jury after a litigant has taken a chance on what the jury will do and after the jury has resolved the issue against him" (internal quotation marks omitted)). Relying on these legal authorities, Ford ...

Bullock v. Dart-599 F.Supp.2d 947 (N.D. Ill. 2009)

Case • 2009

of actual discharges, out of) the Jail diverges based on two factors: the inmate's sex, and whether the inmate obtained a dismissal mittimus. As explained below, the combination of these factors is what ...

Ford v. County of Grand Traverse-535 F.3d 483 (6th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

after a litigant has taken a chance on what the jury will do and after the jury has resolved the issue against him? (internal quotation marks omitted)). Relying on these legal authorities, Ford argues ...

Tobias v. County of Putnam-191 F.Supp.2d 364 (S.D.N.Y. 2002)

Case • 2002

with someone he knew from his undercover narcotics work. Id. at 43:14-24. He spoke to the receptionist for the narcotics unit, who told him, "Billy, what the heck are you doing? Just surrender yourself and we'll ...

Harper v. City of Los Angeles-533 F.3d 1010 (9th Cir. 2008)

Case • 2008

Officers Harper, Liddy and Ortiz. Because the Lobos arrest--during which Perez alleged that the Officers planted a gun on Lobos--is central to this appeal, what follows is a [**6] detailed account ...