what - Search | Prison Legal News

Dubuc v. Johnson-314 F.3d 1205 (10th Cir. 2002)

Case • 2002

institutional account. See § 1915(b). In addition, the prisoner may be entitled to a free copy of the record on appeal, a free transcript of proceedings, and free process. See § 1915(c)-(d). [50] What ...

Young v. Kann-926 F.2d 1396 (3rd Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

be curtailed by the demands and realities of the prison environment. Wolff also holds, however, that a prisoner has a constitutionally protected liberty interest in good time credit, and it enumerates what due ...

Whitley v. Albers-475 U.S. 312, 106 S.Ct. 1078, 89 L.Fd.2d 251 (1986

Case • 1986

, post, p. 328. [10] Author: O'connor [ 475 U.S. Page 314] [11] JUSTICE O'CONNOR delivered the opinion of the Court. [12] This case requires us to decide what standard governs ...

Estes v. Federal Bureau of Prisons-273 F.Supp.2d 1301 (S.D.Ala. 2003)

Case • 2003

that "imprisonment" and "CCC's" are mutually exclusive concepts, then no matter what the rest of the statute says about the BOP's discretion to determine where a term of imprisonment may be served, it cannot be served ...

Anthony v. City of New York-339 F.3d 129 (2d Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

." Appellants' Brief at 34. To the contrary, when asked about his training, Officer Migliaro expressly stated that the NYPD did have a training policy in place to instruct officers in how to interact with what ...

Colman v. Vasquez-142 F.Supp.2d 226 (D.Conn. 2001).

Case • 2001

to substitute (Doc. # 20) is GRANTED, and the United States Motion [**5] to Dismiss (Doc. # 18) is GRANTED. What remains for consideration in light of the above concessions is defendants Harding and Meredieth's ...

Perry v. McDonald-280 F.3d 159 (2d Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

. [49] We are not persuaded. As the District Court correctly concluded, Vermont's restriction on scatological terms-what the Vermont statute describes as "offensive"- reasonably serves legitimate ...

Tsombanidis v. West Haven Fire Dep't-352 F.3d 565 (2d Cir. 2003)

Case • 2003

and then identify similarly situated persons who are unaffected by the policy. It is unclear from its decision what groups the district court compared. To the extent that the district court compared the handicapped ...

Laaman v. Perrin-435 F.Supp. 319 (D NH 1977)

Case • 1977

a small hole drilled into it. The officers quickly decided that what they had discovered were the makings of a pipe bomb. The items were shown to Perrin who then concluded that his decision to recommend ...

Wheeler v. United States-640 F.2d 1116 (9th Cir. 1981)

Case • 1981

] Congress, not surprisingly, did not contemplate such an extraordinary set of circumstances when it considered what judicial decisions were to be subject to collateral attack. In light of the broad powers ...

In Re Southern Ohio Correctional Facility-24 Fed.Appx. 520 (6th Cir. 2001).

Case • 2001

up some misunderstandings as to what had actually been filed under seal. On January 10, 2000, the district court lifted the protective order on the incentive award recommendation. See In re Southern ...

Abney v. State-822 N.E.2d 260 (Ind. App. 2005)

Case • 2005

enhancement. What Booker adds to the discussion is that under a discretionary sentencing scheme, the Sixth Amendment is not implicated at all. It is true, as our earlier cases have stated, that in Indiana ...

Moreland v. Miami-Dade County-255 F.Supp.2d 1304 (SD FL 2002).

Case • 2002

in the Strickland case was inconsistent with her testimony in this [civil service appeal] proceeding and contrary to what she initially told [the Assistant United States Attorney in the Strickland case]." MDCC ...

Culter v. United States-241 F.Supp.2d 19 (D.D.C. 2003)

Case • 2003

of officials does not without more" give rise to a due process claim. Id. at 219 (emphasis added). Here, however, there is "more." What was missing in Davis that is present in this case is that the mistake did ...

Rodriguez-Marin v. Rivera-Gonzales-438 F.3d 72 (1st Cir. 2006).

Case • 2006

] THE COURT: What do you mean by "good faith"? [52] MS. RODRIGUEZ: It is the defendants' reasonable belief that they were acting by authority of a valid statute. [53] THE COURT: I gave ...

Reid v. Johnson-333 F.Supp.2d 543 (E.D.Va. 2004)

Case • 2004

first and second assertions of likely irreparable harm are rejected. What remains is Reid's assertion that the state's mechanism for carrying out the sentence of death by lethal injection ...

WI ACLU Overview of Prisoners' First Amendment Rights

Article • December 15, 2007

Filed under: Retaliation for Filing Grievances, Grooming Rules, Court Access, Prisoner Legal Assistance, Law Library Access/Adequacy, Religious Freedom Restoration Act, RLUIPA, Publications/Books, Sexually Explicit Materials, Mail Regulations, Due Process, Legal Mail, Attorney Visits, Access to Media, Censorship, Required Religious Programming, Religious Grooming, Religious Diet, Denial of Religious Services, Religious Practices, Religious Property

: "whether the regulation is rationally related to a legitimate and neutral governmental objective; whether there are alternative means of exercising the right that remain open to the inmate; what impact ...

Aramark: Prison Food Service with a Bad Aftertaste

Article • December 15, 2006 • from PLN December, 2006

Filed under: Private Prisons, Food/Commissary (Private Prisons), Contractor Misconduct, Food, Death Row

hospitalized after eating what appeared to be metal shavings in their meal served at Correctional Treatment Facility, which receives its meals from the county jail, under contract with Aramark. Others reported ...

Massachi v. AHL Services, Inc.-396 N.J. Super. 486, 935 A.2d 769 (2007)

Case • 2007

University in South Orange. Massachi was crying and screaming for help. At approximately 2:30 p.m., one of the girls ran to the security guard's booth at the University's main gate and reported what she had ...

Willis v. Kane-485 F.Supp.2d 1126 (N.D. Cal.), rev'd, 256 Fed.Appx. 66 (9th Cir. 2007)

Case • 2007

for judicial review, the next step is to look to state law because that sets the criteria to which the some evidence standard applies. One must look to state law to answer the question, "'some evidence' of what ...