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Swans v. City of Lansing-65 F.Supp.2d 625 (W.D. Mich. 1998)

Case • 1998

of the restraint chair, testified that there was no chair in the cell block. (T.T. at 11-159 to 11-160.) In any event, the officers involved agree that what followed was the use of their "kick--stop restraint ...

Farr v. Blodgett-810 F. Supp. 1485 (ED WA 1993)

Case • 1993

of a confidential informant. The informant only knew what had been told him by inmate Johnson. Furthermore, the reliability of Johnson's statements were not enhanced by the results of his polygraph examination [**11 ...

Torcasio v. Murray-57 F.3d 1340 (4th Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

Torcasio suffers from what he describes as "morbid obesity." He stands five feet, seven inches tall, weighs 460 pounds, and has a girth of 78 inches. His obesity, he claims, causes him a variety of physical ...

Sandin v. Conner-115 S. Ct. 2293 (1995)

Case • 1995

. [17] The Court made explicit in Hewitt what was implicit in Greenholtz. In evaluating the claims of inmates who had been confined to administrative segregation, it first rejected the inmates' claim ...

United States v. Bajakajian-118 S. Ct. 2028 (1998)

Case • 1998

forfeiture would "make up for what I think a reasonable fine should be." Ibid. [38] The United States appealed, seeking full forfeiture of respondent's currency as provided in Section 982(a)(1 ...

Lee v. County of Los Angeles-250 F.3d 668 (9th Cir. 2001)

Case • 2001

to relief." Fed. R. Civ. P. 8(a). The Supreme Court has stated that"the Rule mean[s] what it sa[ys]." Leatherman v. Tarrant County Narcotics Intelligence and Coordination Unit, 507 U.S. 163, 168 (1993 ...

Rumsfeld v. Padilla-124 S.Ct. 2711 (2004)

Case • 2004

of Ky., 410 U. S. 484, 494-495 (1973) ("The writ of habeas corpus" acts upon "the person who holds [the detainee] in what is alleged to be unlawful custody," citing Wales, supra, at 574); Braden, supra ...

In Re Scott-119 Cal. App. 4th 871, 15 Cal.Rptr.3d 32 (2004)

Case • 2004

guess. He threatened to blow my head off for going to the police over the fact that he was supplying my wife with drugs." Scott also said that at the time of the killing, "when he went for his gun, what I ...

Trentadue v. Lee-397 F.3d 840 (10th Cir. 2005).

Case • 2005

alleged "these and other acts" by the government "were so outrageous and extreme as to exceed all bounds of what is tolerated in a civilized community." Their complaint also [**14] asserted civil rights ...

Scheidler v. national Organization for Women, Inc.-123 S.Ct. 1057 (2003).

Case • 2003

was to be clear about what conduct was prohibited. (11) If the distinction between extortion and coercion was to be abandoned, then such a significant expansion of the law's coverage would have to come from ...

Beard v. Banks-126 S.Ct. 2572 (2006)

Case • 2006

connection ' " between the Policy and " `legitimate penological interests,' " 482 U. S., at 89, 95. Dickson noted that prison authorities are limited in what they can and cannot deny or give a level 2 inmate ...

Turner v. Safley-482 U.S. 78, 107 S.Ct. 2254, 96 L.Ed.2d 64 (1987).

Case • 1987

arbiters of what constitutes the best solution to every administrative problem, thereby "unnecessarily perpetuat[ing] the involvement of the federal courts in affairs of prison administration." Procunier v ...

Morales Feliciano v. Calderon Serra-300 F.Supp.2d 321 (USDC D PR 2004)

Case • 2004

in violation of paragraphs 28 and 29 of the Medical Plan. Ultimately what this means is that persons [**16] having medical conditions which require a certain level of constant oversight and attention will simply ...

Prison Legal News v. Washington Department of Corr-154 Wn.2d 628; 115 P.3d 316 (Wash. 2005).

Case • 2005

inmates nor disciplining medical employees is 'law enforcement' as that term is commonly understood. [60] The PDA itself does not define 'law enforcement' or state what is 'essential ...

People v. Willis-28 Cal.4th 22. 43 P.3d 898 (Cal. 2002)

Case • 2002

either of these questions further. [30] However, the Attorney General argues that the evidence is admissible under what is commonly known as the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule, which ...

Smith v. Doe-123 S.Ct. 1140 (2003)

Case • 2003

., ibid. Because the Court ordinarily defers to the legislature's stated intent, id., at 361, only the clearest proof will suffice to override that intent and transform what has been denominated a civil ...

Jackson v. District of Columbia-89 F.Supp.2d 48 (D DC 2000)

Case • 2000

the statute means what it plainly says: prisoners may only file actions under federal law concerning their conditions of confinement after they have exhausted their prison's administrative remedies. Other ...

Armstrong v. Squadrito-152 F.3d 564 (7th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

--it does not shock the conscience--unless it meets all three of the conditions we have identified. What we refer to as a "right" is often referred to as a "protected interest." See, e.g., West v. Waymire ...

Hale v. Arizona-993 F2d 1387 (9th cir. 1993) (en banc).

Case • 1993

the prisoners have identified a property interest that is protected under the due process clause and gives rise to a claim under 42 U.S.C. § 1983. We must also determine to what extent the prisoners' claims ...

Handberry v. Thompson-219 F. Supp. 2d 525 (S.D.N.Y. 2002).

Case • 2002

of services they have provided, the fact that the City defendants may have said they intended to provided five and one-half hours of instruction per day is irrelevant to the determination of what ...