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Nat'l Elec. Contractor Ass'n v. Riveland-138 Wn.2d 9 (WA 1999)

Case • 1999

constitutionally empowered and best able to broker the various interests at play in this case. For the Court to allow itself to be drawn into what is in essence a sociopolitical dispute is to misperceive our role ...

Two Rivers v. Lewis-174 F. 3d 987 (9th cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

baths, this time in bath tubs allegedly encrusted in fecal matter and what appeared to be scabs from other patients. These incidents form the basis for his claim. The incidents occurred prior to September ...

Jones v. Baker-155 F.3d 810 (6th Cir. 1998)

Case • 1998

case asserts that administrative segregation in general is "typical" of what can normally be expected as an incident of prison life, so that such confinement does not normally give rise to a liberty ...

Black v. Selsky-15 F.Supp.2d 311 (WD NY 1998)

Case • 1998

question. However, Black ultimately consented to an adjournment of the hearing in order to procure Gridley's testimony: D. Ryan: Well what were going to do Blacks is that Ill adjourn your hearing until I ...

Lattany v. Four Unknown U.S. Marshalls-845 F.Supp 262 (ED PA 1994)

Case • 1994

and informed Marshal #2 that the prisoners had to be taken to the hospital. When Marshal #2 asked what the closest hospital was, Marshal #1 responded:" I'm not taking them to none of them fancy hospitals, those ...

Wilson v. City of Chicago-6 F.3d 1233 (7th Cir. 1993)

Case • 1993

to distract the jury from the legal issue, which is what the police had done to Wilson, not what Wilson had done to the police. As for the tattoo, the contention that a person who is willing to be "mutilated ...

Cooper v. Casey-97 F.3d 914 (7th Cir. 1996)

Case • 1996

they point to the plaintiffs' inability to identify which of the defendants knew what and when. [18] Deliberately to ignore a request for medical assistance has long been held to be a form of cruel ...

Allen v. City and County of Honolulu-816 F. Supp. 1501 (DC HI 1993)

Case • 1993

(1982). In order for a right to be "clearly established," "the contours of the right must be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would understand that what he is doing violates that right ...

Chalmers v. Winston-95 F.Supp.2d 536 (E.D. Va. 2000)

Case • 2000

is a taking per se, notwithstanding whether the person whose property is occupied suffers any economic harm, and the sole question in that event is what compensation is just. See Loretto v. Teleprompter ...

Soler v. Scott-942 F.2d 597 (9th Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

-incarceration proceedings; and this is precisely what Congress sought to avoid in enacting Title 8 U.S.C. § 1252(i)." [28] The INS does not deny the existence of the policy Soler alleges, nor its ...

Smith v. Angelone-111 F.3d 1126 (4th Cir. 1997)

Case • 1997

, on "the Commonwealth's own, quote, experts verifying Mr. Smith's version of what happened." Even in hindsight, and with the help of a battery of experts, Smith was not able to prove much more at the habeas hearing than ...

Conner v. Sakai-994 F2d 1408 (9th cir. 1993)

Case • 1993

been suggested, effectively to carry out what appears to have been the Congressional purpose"). The interpretation of the English-only rule sought by the state would be most unexpected and highly unusual ...

Powell v. Schriver-175 F.3d 107 (2nd Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

] Clearly, an individual's choice to inform others that she has contracted what is at this point invariably and sadly a fatal, incurable disease is one that she should normally be allowed to make for herself ...

Bauman v. Walsh-36 F.Supp.2d 508 (ND NY 1999)

Case • 1999

[**7] times since his September 1995 accident, indicating a pattern of persistent pain and discomfort, rather than what Defendants refer to as "some intermittent pain." See Defs.' Mem. of Law in Supp ...

Hadix v. Johnson-182 F.3d 400 (6th Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

that is designed to provide meaningful access to the courts. In response, the plaintiffs have done exactly what Lewis says they cannot do. [58] "Although Bounds itself made no mention of an actual-injury ...

Rouse v. Plantier-182 F.3d 192 (3rd Cir. 1999)

Case • 1999

official would understand that what he is doing violates that right." Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 640 (1987); see also Acierno v. Cloutier, 40 F.3d 597, 616 (3d Cir. 1994) (en banc). In determining ...

Crawford-El v. Britton-951 F.2d 1314 (DC Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

first consider what state of mind must have accompanied her misdelivery of Crawford-El's legal papers to render that action a constitutional tort (or, more precisely, what state of mind would a reasonable ...

Asherman v. Meachum-932 F.2d 137 (2nd Cir. 1991)

Case • 1991

crack in what appeared to be a closing door to the federal courthouse for state prisoners who had procedurally defaulted. See Rosenberg, Kaddish for Federal Habeas Corpus, 59 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 362, 372 ...

Benter v. Peck-825 F.Supp 1411 (SD Iowa 1993)

Case • 1993

be sufficiently clear that a reasonable official would [**22] understand that what he is doing violates that right." Anderson v. Creighton, 483 U.S. 635, 640, 97 L. Ed. 2d 523, 107 S. Ct. 3034 (1987). Even ...

Murphy v. Walker-51 F.3d 714 (7th Cir. 1995)

Case • 1995

and fell while taking a shower at the Mason County Jail, sustaining what he describes as a severe head injury. He alleges that the shower had no rails, floor mats, or other safety devices, making it unsafe ...