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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 ...

National Archives and Records Administration v. Fa-124 S.Ct. 1570 (2004)

Case • 2004

, in fact, tenders evidence and argument which, if believed, would justify his doubts," the FOIA request "is in complete conformity with the statutory purpose that the public know what its government is up ...

Small v. City of New York-274 F.Supp.2d 271 (E.D.N.Y. 2003)

Case • 2003

and in the crosswalk at the time of the accident. Essentially, plaintiffs allege that they have been deprived of evidence as to what occurred at the moment [**22] of impact and in the crucial hours following impact ...

Alvarado v. The City Of Brownsville-865 S.W.2d 148 (Tex. App. 2003)

Case • 2003

what kind of mattress was policy implementation), McKinney, 814 S.W.2d at 865 (no duty existed to provide barricades at parade to protect spectators, but, once decision to provide barricades made, city ...

Cleavinger v. Saxner-474 U.S. 193, 106 S.Ct. 496 (1985)

Case • 1985

of the present case. Judge Cudahy of the Court of Appeals, in his separate concurring opinion, 727 F.2d, at 673, stressed the Butz factors and was persuaded by what he felt were the absence of procedural ...

Campbell v. Arkansas DOC-155 F.3d 950 (8th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

for interviews. He referred the requests to the ADC public information officer, and one interview was approved. Guntharp instructed him "to be pretty goddamned careful" about what he said to the media ...